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Rachel is an underage volunteer for the Montgomery County Liquor Board. She poses in a Montgomery County liquor and wine store with her Maryland underage driver’s license,
which is vertical and has a red box around her picture to indicate that she is not old enough to purchase alcohol. The Gazette blurred the personal details on her license.
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ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH
pronounce it correctly.
When she started testing restaurants, she was nervous, she said.
That ﬁrst night, more than a half
dozen of the 20 restaurants she tested
ended up serving her illegally.
Montgomery County police work
with underage volunteers such as Navarrete to check if restaurants and liquor
establishments are selling to drinkers
younger than 21, the minimum age to
buy or drink alcohol in Maryland.
“We don’t call it a sting operation,”
said Kathie Durbin, chief of the licen-
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Valeria Navarrete remembers the
ﬁrst time she tested whether a restaurant would sell her alcohol illegally.
She was an underage volunteer
working with Montgomery County police.
“I didn’t know anything or what to
choose,” Navarrete said. She asked for a
chardonnay, mostly because she knew
what the wine looked like and how to
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Of the 400 county businesses tested in the last ﬁscal year, which ended June 30, 111 sold alcohol to minors.
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Eighth-graders witness one
of nation’s oldest traditions
BY
ALINE BARROS
STAFF WRITER
With the American ﬂag in their hands, and surrounded by family and friends, 26 candidates from
23 countries became U.S. citizens at a ceremony
hosted by students and the administration Tuesday
at Rosa Parks Middle School in Olney.
The ceremony in the school’s gymnasium
was part of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
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Services’ annual celebration of Constitution Day
and Citizenship Day. More than 18,000 people are
becoming U.S. citizens in about 180 naturalization ceremonies across the country from Monday
through next Monday, according to a news release
from Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Eighth-graders at Rosa Parks had the opportunity to witness and learn about government while
taking part in the citizenship process.
“I was so proud of the students today,” said
Principal Donna Redmond Jones. “Preparing the
orchestra, preparing the patriotic music, and they
just came to school in August. ... They did a great
job.”
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KEVIN JAMES SHAY
STAFF WRITER
Representatives from two development companies targeted to redevelop
several sites in downtown Wheaton and
Silver Spring are slated to outline their
plans during a meeting open to the public at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Wheaton High
School.
StonebridgeCarras of Bethesda and
Bozzuto Group of Greenbelt submitted
the highest-rated proposal to the county,
which sent out requests in June, said Ana
L. van Balen, director of the Mid-County
Regional Services Center in Wheaton.
The meeting is part of the procurement
process, and a formal contract has yet to
be awarded, she said.
Developers will present their proposed plans and design ideas at the meeting. A StonebridgeCarras principal could
not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Montgomery County Department of
Transportation and the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission are overseeing the mixed-use
project, which includes developing a
town square and building a government
ofﬁce building where the commission
plans to relocate from Silver Spring.
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prostitution
case headed
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Mother faces 11 charges
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ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH
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Rendell L. Jones, associate director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, presided over the
event and cited the words of President Harry Truman to set Citizenship Day “aside as a public occasion for the honoring of American citizenship by
giving special recognition to all our citizens who
have recently become full members of the body
politics.”
“So today we honor you,” Jones added.
Jones also told eighth-graders that they were
witnessing one of the nation’s oldest traditions.
Eighth-grader Stefanie Wilpon, 13, won a con-
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Kennedy High School
graduate gets a day
with tennis pros at
the US Open.
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A woman accused of prostituting
her 15-year-old daughter to help pay off
a $5,000 debt is on trial this week in a
Montgomery County courtroom.
The mother is charged with a total of
11 crimes, including rape, child abuse,
prostitution, human trafficking, and
other charges. The Gazette is not naming
the woman to protect the identity of the
alleged victim, her daughter.
The case dates back to March, when
police arrested the woman and Bejarni
Rivas, 45, of Irish Court in Gaithersburg.
According to police, abuse occurred
from December 2012 through March
2013 and many of the acts took place at
the Georgian Colonies Club House in Silver Spring.
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side Nature Center, 1400 Glenallan Ave.,
Wheaton. After the campﬁre, take a nature walk
around the pond looking and listening for frogs,
insects, birds and other wildlife active in the
evening. $5. Register at www.parkpass.org.
Documentary Screening, 7:30-10 p.m., Buffington/REMAX Building Community Room,
3300 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. “War
on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National
Security State.” Free. 301-570-0923.
Art in full color
SATURDAY, SEPT. 21
Ladies’ Hike Out: Paint Branch, 9:30-11:15
a.m., Brookside Nature Center, 1400 Glenallan
Ave., Wheaton. Walk about three miles on an
easy grade, enjoying views of the stream and
delving into the colonial history that distinguished it. Free. Register at www.parkpass.org.
Summer concert, 10-11 a.m., Howard Avenue Park, Howard Avenue, Kensington, with
Drew Holland and friends playing old country
and rockabilly music. Free. info@kensingtonhistory.org.
Kidzbill Presents Here Comes Trouble,
10:30 a.m., FNDTN Gallery and Liveroom, 3762
Howard Ave., Kensington. Live weekend music
for families that’s not watered down; neither is
the coffee. $5. 240-476-1561.
Children’s Day: School’s Outside! 11 a.m.-4
p.m., Brookside Gardens, 1800 Glenallan Ave.,
GALLERY HAR SHALOM
“The Power of Color,” an exhibit featuring acrylic paintings by Alexandria, Va., artist Ana Elisa
Benavent, blown glass by Bethesda artist Jane Callen, ﬁber art by Bethesda artist Floris Flam and
photography by Richard Paul Weiblinger of Laurel, will open with a reception from 11 a.m. to 1
p.m. Sunday at Gallery Har Shalom, 11510 Falls Road, Potomac. The exhibit will be on view to Oct.
28. Pictured is Floris Flam’s ginkgo fabric bowl. For more information, visit www.harshalom.org.
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Wheaton. Participate in hands-on activities that
integrate the school subjects with nature. Free.
301-962-1400.
Corny! 3:30-4:30 p.m., Brookside Nature
Center, 1400 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. Make
ash cakes, corn cob dolls, corn meal and more
in this do-and-learn class. $7. Register at www.
parkpass.org.
AIM Sucess Summit, 7 p.m., Silver Spring
Civic Building, 1 Veterans Place, Silver Spring.
Gain wealth creation insights and success
strategies, consistent with values, from international businessman Peter J. Daniels. $49.
301-650-4110.
Open House, 7-10 p.m., Dance Bethesda,
8227 Woodmont Ave., Bethesda. Learn ballroom,
latin, and swing dancing. Free. 301-951-3660.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 22
Emma’s Revolution and The
U-Liners in Concert, 8 p.m.,
SUN
Takoma Park Civic Auditorium,
7500 Maple Ave., Takoma Park.
$18 in advance, $22 at the door.
http://emmasrevolution.com/
live.
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Cavalcade of Street Cars,
noon-5 p.m., National Capital
Trolley Museum, 1313 Bonifant
Road, Colesville. Many European trams and North American streetcars available to ride.
301-384-6088.
Free. cagalati@rcn.com.
Wednesday Wonders Storytime, 10-10:30
a.m., Wheaton Library, 11701 Georgia Ave.,
Wheaton, also at 11 a.m. Read, sing, dance and
do ﬁnger plays. Ages 2 to 5. Free; tickets given out
one hour before each program. 240-777-0678.
Ayurveda: In Tune with Nature, noon-1:30
p.m., Brookside Gardens, 1800 Glenallan Ave.,
Wheaton. $18. Register at www.parkpass.com.
Geology in Your Own Backyard, 4-5 p.m.,
Brookside Nature Center, 1400 Glenallan Ave.,
Wheaton. Search the stream for rocks and minerals. $5. Register at www.parkpass.org.
Bulbs for All Seasons Talk, 7:30-9 p.m., Historic Takoma, Inc., 7328 Carroll Ave., Takoma
Park. Hosted by the Takoma Horticultural Club.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 19
Discovery Hike: When the Leaves Fall,
1:30-2:30 p.m., Brookside Nature Center, 1400
Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. $5. Register at www.
parkpass.org.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 20
Garden Demo: Creating the Peacocks,
1-2:30 p.m., Brookside Gardens, 1500 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. Lisa Tayerle of Brookside
Gardens will guide a tour of the peacocks she
created. $6. Register at www.parkpass.org.
Campﬁre and Pond Walk, 6-7 p.m., Brook-
MONDAY, SEPT. 23
Pain Connection Speaker Series, 1:15-2:30
p.m., Holiday Park Senior Center, 3950 Ferrara
Drive, Wheaton. For anyone with chronic pain,
family members and/or professionals. Free.
www.painconnection.org.
Immigration 101: Policies, Problems and
Possibilities, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Wheaton Library,
11701 Georgia Ave., Wheaton. Immigration
attorney Don Mooers will provide a tour of
current immigration law and policy and how it
plays out in the county. Free. 301-984-9585.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 24
Forest Wildlife Walk, 1:30-2:30 p.m., Brookside Nature Center, 1400 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. Look for animal homes like tree and ground
holes. $5. Register at www.parkpass.org.
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Humane Society Microchip Clinic, 1-3 p.m.,
Aspen Hill Memorial Park, Georgia Avenue and
Aspen Hill Road, Silver Spring. Bring a cat or
dog to these public microchip clinics to make
reunions easier if a pet gets lost. $35 per dog or
cat. 240-773-5960.
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Silver Spring insurance agent helps to get shoes to the poor
vador’s embassy to represent
that country in the competition.
He will be preparing Salvadoran dishes using seafood,
edible ﬂowers such as loroco
and hibiscus, and Salvadoran
enchiladas.
PEOPLE & PL ACES
ALINE BARROS
Got shoes? Michael Palmiotto will take them.
Palmiotto, a State Farm Insurance agent in Silver Spring,
has made his ofﬁce an ofﬁcial
drop-off location for the global
anti-poverty nonproﬁt Soles4Souls of Nashville, Tenn.
It’s the only such location in
the area.
“It is for a great cause and
we are in the business to help
people take care of themselves,”
Palmiotto said.
As of Friday, the ofﬁce had
collected ﬁve pairs of shoes, but
Palmiotto said he hopes donations will grow as the public
becomes aware of the cause.
Soles4Souls recently distributed more than 700 pairs
of footwear and apparel to tornado survivors in Oklahoma.
Palmiotto welcomes donations of new or gently worn
shoes during ofﬁce hours at
1734 Elton Road, Suite 115.
This is not his ﬁrst charitable effort. He participates
every June in Bike MS, a cycling
fundraiser in the Washington
area for the National Multiple
Sclerosis Society. This June, he
raised $1,480 in his 150-mile,
two-day ride.
Greek festival to debut
in Silver Spring
The Sts. Constantine and
Helen Greek Orthodox Church
of Washington, D.C., will host
its annual Greek festival in Silver Spring next month.
The festival will be held
from noon to 9 p.m. Oct. 12 and
11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 13, rain or
shine, at St. Andrew Ukrainian
Orthodox Cathedral, 15100 New
Hampshire Ave.
Food, including homemade
Greek pastries, gyros, shish kebabs, spanakopitas and Greek
yogurt, will be provided by the
church’s Ladies’ Society, using
generations-old recipes.
The festival also will feature
live Greek music, a Greek marketplace featuring Greek olive
oils and olives, a moon bounce
and face painting.
The festival is free and open
to the public.
Sts. Constantine and Helen
Greek Orthodox Church is
building a new church at 701
Norwood Road, Silver Spring, to
be completed next year. It holds
services at St. Andrew for now.
Annual Street
Fest is Sept. 28
The South Silver Spring
Neighborhood Association will
hold its seventh annual Street
Fest from noon to 6 p.m. Sept.
28 at 8040 Kennett St., Silver
Spring.
The free event offers live
music, arts and crafts, a beer
garden and cocktail bar, and
children’s entertainment.
Parking is free at the Kennett Street garage. More information is at southsilverspring.
org.
Islamic organization
marks 40 years
The Islamic Society of the
Washington Area will celebrate
its 40th anniversary at 5 p.m.
Saturday at 2701 Briggs Chaney
Road, Silver Spring.
The society is active in the
Islamic community and has
outreach programs that involve
federal, state and local government agencies. Many of these
programs include social and
humanitarian services that deal
with domestic violence and
poverty.
The celebration will include
prayers from the Islamic youth
community and remarks from
Imam Faizul Khan, followed
by keynote speaker Sulayman
Nyang, a Howard University
professor; Nihad Awad, founder
and executive director of the
Council on American-Islamic
Relations; a reading of a proclamation from Montgomery
County Executive Isiah Leggett
(D); and Caribbean food.
Information: www.iswamd.
org.
Harvest Moon
Festival is Sunday
Silver Spring Town Center
will present the free 2013 Harvest Moon Festival from 1 to 9
p.m. Sunday at Veterans Plaza.
Chopteeth Afro-Funk Big
Band, a 12-piece Afrofunk orchestra, will play a mix of funk
and West African and American
popular music.
Also performing will be
AshTrArNava, Pan Lara, the
Eclecticks, Stream & the Blue
Dragons and Zezeh Brazil
Samba Dance Troupe.
Chef to represent
El Salvador in contest
Montgomery women
compete in pageant
Ismar Reyes-Cruz, ownerchef at Silver Spring’s El Napolitano Restaurant, has been
chosen to compete in an international cooking contest Oct.
9-17 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Cruz was selected by El Sal-
Four of the ﬁve ﬁnalists
in the 2013 Paciﬁc Miss Asian
American Beauty Pageant are
from or now live in Montgomery County.
• Rosie Zhang, the ﬁrst runner-up, attended Paint Branch
High School in Burtonsville.
She won $3,000. She also won
awards for Best Dress and Best
Posture, which each includes a
$500 prize.
• Doreen Yan of Rockville,
the second runner-up, is a senior at Richard Montgomery
High School in Rockville. She
won $2,000, plus the $500 Most
Popular award.
• Catherine Ho, another topﬁve ﬁnalist, lives in Rockville.
• Vania Cao, also a ﬁnalist,
lives in Bethesda.
The pageant took place
Sept. 6 in North Bethesda. The
winner goes on to compete
in the Miss Asia Paciﬁc World
competition in Seoul, South
Korea.
deliver hot lunches to seniors in
the Gaithersburg area.
The lunches and cold suppers are prepared at Asbury
Methodist Village, 333 Russell
Ave., Gaithersburg, and picked
up by drivers from 10:45 to
11:30 a.m. Monday through
Friday. Delivery takes about an
hour, with eight to 12 clients on
each route.
Volunteers are asked to
drive once every week or every
other week, and training is provided.
Anyone interested in volunteering may call 301-216-4200
or Mary Casamento at 301-2534626.
SweetFrog collecting
food for Manna
Humane society plans
pet microchip clinics
The Montgomery County
Humane Society will hold clinics from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday and
Oct. 13 at which pet owners
can have a microchip inserted
under their dog’s or cat’s skin to
help ﬁnd it if it’s missing.
The clinics will be held at
Aspin Hill Memorial Park at
the corner of Georgia Avenue
and Aspen Hill Road in Silver
Spring.
A microchip is the size of
a grain of rice and can identify
an animal when it is read by a
scanning device.
The cost of inserting a microchip in each animal is $35.
Selected pets also will be available for adoption. For more
information, call 240-773-5960
or visit www.mchumane.org/
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Transportation booklet
now in multiple languages
Montgomery County’s
Department of Transportation
Resident’s Guide to Services is
now available in multiple languages.
The guide provides phone,
email and online contacts to
direct residents to county and
state transportation department services.
The guide is available in
English, Spanish, traditional
Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese.
Copies are available on the
county’s website at montgomerycountymd.gov, or by calling
240-777-7155 or emailing mcdot.outreach@montgomerycountymd.gov.
Foundation awards grants
to small nonproﬁts
The Carl M. Freeman Foundation of Rockville is taking
grant applications from small
nonproﬁt organizations in
Montgomery County.
The Freeman Assists Communities with Extra Support
grant program is open to nonproﬁts with operating budgets
of $750,000 or less. Applications
DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE
“It is for a great cause and we are in the business to help people take care
of themselves,” says Michael Palmiotto, an insurance agent in Silver Spring
whose ofﬁce is now a drop-off location for the global nonproﬁt Soles4Souls.
are due 5 p.m. Sept. 25.
Complete guidelines and
applications are at carlfreemanfoundation.org. For questions,
contact Melissa Rizer at 302436-3015 or melissa@freemanfoundation.org.
Deadlines near for
stormwater credits
Residential and commercial
property owners who install
stormwater management systems may be eligible to reduce
their water quality protection
charge by up to 50 percent.
Applications to receive a
credit in the 2013 tax year are
due Sept. 30 and Oct. 31 for the
2014 tax year. Approved credits
are valid for three years.
The goal of the credit is to
reduce stormwater pollution.
The amount of the credit is
based on the number of gallons
of stormwater diverted.
Eligible systems include
rain gardens, dry wells, green
roofs, permeable pavement,
conservation landscaping,
rain barrels/cisterns, dry or
wet ponds, sand ﬁlters, swales,
inﬁltration trenches and underground stormwater storage.
The stormwater management
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Music competition
seeks entrants
The annual Asian American
Music Society’s piano, string,
woodwind and voice competition for musicians in kindergarten through 12th grade will be
held Oct. 26 in Bethesda.
The ﬁrst-place winner will
receive a scholarship and a winners’ concert will be performed
at the Millennium Stage at the
John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts in Washington.
More information and applications are at aamsopera.
com/competition.html. Applications must be postmarked
Oct. 12.
Meals on Wheels
drivers needed
Gaithersburg Meals on
Wheels needs volunteers to
Beneﬁts counseling for
veterans is Tuesday
Representatives of the Disabled American Veterans plan
to be in Rockville Tuesday to
provide free beneﬁts counseling
and claim ﬁling assistance for
veterans and their families.
The organization’s mobile
ofﬁce is scheduled to be at
American Legion Post 86 from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The post is at
2013 Veirs Mill Road.
DEATHS
Roy Linwood Selby Jr.
Roy Linwood Selby Jr.,
75, of Beallsville, died Sept.
14, 2013, at Frederick Memorial Hospital. The funeral will take place at 11
a.m. Sept. 20 at Poolesville
Memorial United Methodist
Church, 17821 Elgin Road,
Poolesville. Hilton Funeral
Home in Barnesville handled arrangements.
Alton McCoy Gray
Alton McCoy Gray
died Sept. 8, 2013 at Arcola
Health and Rehabilitation
Center in Silver Spring.
Do you or anyone
you know need food?
The Shiloh Christian Fellowship
Food Bank will be distributing food
on Saturday, September 21st.
Time: 10 a.m. until 12 Noon
Everyone is Welcome!
Location: 14905 New Hampshire Avenue,
Silver Spring, Maryland
301-384-4531
“As God has given to us, we freely give to others.”
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LEAVES ARE FALLING...
practices must be maintained
by the property owner and in
accordance with the maintenance requirements of the
county’s Department of Environmental Protection.
For more information,
email WQPC.credits@montgomerycountymd.gov.
Frozen yogurt cafe sweetFrog is collecting food donations for Manna Food Center
of Gaithersburg. SweetFrog has
ﬁve locations in Montgomery
County.
The wish list of donation
items includes canned fruit,
vegetables, tuna and chicken.
Grains, such as brown rice,
whole wheat pasta and oats,
also are welcome, as well as
baby food and formula. All nonperishable food items will be
accepted.
SweetFrog locations will
collect donations until Sunday.
The chain has locations at
76 Market St., Gaithersburg;
10072 Darnestown Road, 11520
Rockville Pike and 891 Rockville
Pike, all in Rockville; and 11211
New Hampshire Ave. in White
Oak.
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Food, fashion, and a whole lot more at Ethiopian Festival
Natives and newbies
connect to the culture
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BY ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH
AND LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFF WRITER
At the third annual Ethiopian Festival in Silver Spring on Sunday, Teru
Fentike was dishing out plates of lentils,
greens and injera — a traditional starch.
“I’m so excited!” she said.
Fentike lived in Silver Spring when
she ﬁrst came to the U.S. 26 years ago.
Now, the Bowie resident still runs a
restaurant, Bete Ethiopian, just blocks
from Veterans Plaza, where music
boomed, and Ethiopians, friends and
festival-goers mingled, many sporting
soccer jerseys or traditional dress.
The area, and the Ethiopian community, has changed since then, she said.
“When we came here a long time
ago [and saw another Ethiopian] we’d
hug and say, ‘It’s another Ethiopian!’
Now, look,” she said, waving at the
thousands of people packed into the
plaza.
“The Ethiopian community is growing rapidly,” she said, grinning.
Silver Spring’s — and the metro
Washington, D.C., area’s — Ethiopian
population has exploded in recent
years, according to festival organizer
Tebabu Assefa. There are more than
75 Ethiopian small businesses in the
greater downtown area of Silver Spring,
many of which have opened since 2008,
he said.
“We have great momentum for
making Silver Spring the major social
and economic hub of Ethiopians living
in the U.S.,” he said after the festival.
And the event, which was ﬁrst held
three years ago, has grown into one of
the largest such events nationwide, he
said, adding that he thought that there
could be more than 30,000 attendees
Sunday.
It also drew fans of the country’s
cuisine.
Heidi Thompson of Columbia
Heights, D.C., was in line waiting for
some food with her friend Rose Berger.
“It’s just yummy,” she said, when
asked what food she was waiting for.
“[It] always tastes better when you
can eat it with your hands,” she added
with a laugh.
David Hartmann of Silver Spring
was in line as well. Hartmann served
as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia
from 1966 to 1968, teaching math at a
secondary school seven hours from the
nation’s capital, Addis Ababa.
“It’s unbelievable coming back here
living in Silver Spring, and having an
Ethiopian festival,” he said.
Nearby, Fareed Sherefa was showing potential customers a keyboard that
typed both Amharic and English — a
tricky feat, considering Amharic has
hundreds of letters, he said.
“It’s very important,” he said.
“We’ve never had a hardware version
before.”
It had been about 10 years in development, he said.
And Birye Abebe was showing parents a literacy toy — the Feedel Gotera,
which looked a little like an abacus with
rows of spinning letters.
“A lot of parents, we still want to
teach [our children] the language, and
maintain the connection to the language,” he said.
Others watched musical performances, the fashion show, or browsed
vendors’ stalls hawking everything from
toys to oils and soaps.
Dolores Hearast of Washington,
D.C., wandered through the festival
crowd decked out in a dress, jacket,
purse and more bearing signs of the
celebrated country.
“I love the culture,” she said. “And I
have a lot of friends from Ethiopia.”
Hearast said she enjoyed the festival’s singing and dancing, and had already bought some bracelets and was
look to do some more shopping.
“I have so much to do,” she said.
Among a street full of other vendors, Bethlehem Yohannes and Tigest
Teshome sold a variety of treats at their
stand “Sweet Corner.”
The baklava, Yohannes said, was a
family recipe from Teshome.
In Ethiopia, she said, people are often too full after a good meal for sweets
— but if a sweet is to be eaten, there’s a
beeline to the baklava.
Yohannes said her specialty is
dabo kolo, an authentic Ethiopian
snack that’s nonperishable and full of
carbohydrates, a good ﬁt for travelers.
“I made one with cocoa — I Americanized it,” she said laughing.
The two women — who have
known each other since they were kids
— are in the start-up phase of their
business and were looking on Sunday
to network with other Ethiopian business owners at the festival.
“This is our coming out,” Teshome
said.
Rachael Lesniewski of Annapolis
attended the festival with her husband
Chris, two sons and two daughters.
About an hour and a half into their visit,
the family stood listening to the festival’s music.
Lesniewski said she and her husband adopted 5-year-old Joshua from
Ethiopia two years ago and are planning to adopt two Ethiopian girls.
Part of attending the festival, she
said, was “introducing them [her other
children] to where their brother came
from.”
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Old law undercuts Montgomery barbers County, Foulger-Pratt
County delegate
wants to give the code
a clean shave
n
BY
KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFF WRITER
Deep in the annals of Maryland law is a single sentence that
one Montgomery County lawmaker says needs to be shaved
from the code.
It reads: “A barbershop in
Montgomery County may not
open for business more than 6
days a week.”
Del. Eric Luedtke says the
old law needs to go and has
drafted a bill repealing it. He
plans to introduce his bill in the
2014 Maryland General Assembly, which starts in January.
“Laws have real effects on
people’s lives and I think we
should have a clean code,” he
said.
Luedtke (D-Dist. 14) of Burtonsville suspects the law is an
old “blue law,” a subset of laws
that ban activity on Sundays for
religious purposes.
As far back as 1971, state
law prohibited barbershops in
Montgomery and, at the time,
Prince George’s County, from
being open for business more
than six days each week, according to information from the
Maryland Department of Legislative Services.
In 1996, the General Assembly repealed the requirement
for Prince George’s County, but
it remained for Montgomery.
Restricting barbershops in
Montgomery to a six-day business week is a law the state can
do without, Luedtke said.
“As far as I know, it is not being enforced,” Luedtke said.
The law is not enforced,
said Michael Vorgetts, acting
commissioner of the Maryland
Department of Labor Licensing and Regulations’ Division of
Occupational and Professional
Licensing. It would fall to the
DLLR, as the staff for the state’s
Board of Barbers, to enforce the
law, he said.
“We have a high volume of
complaints for more serious
violations, more significant
threats to public health and
safety,” Vorgetts said. “So those
are the things that we would try
to focus on.”
Andrew Fremming has been
a barber for 12 years. His shop,
The Suite, has been open in Sil-
trade barbs over
transit center repairs
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BY
Congregation had
wanted to build church in
Germantown
BY
RYAN MARSHALL
STAFF WRITER
Montgomery County will
pay $1.25 million to a congregation that wanted to build an
800-seat church in the county’s
agricultural reserve but was
barred from doing so, and will
instead build a 1,200-seat facility in Silver Spring.
The settlement resolves a
dispute between the county and
Bethel World Outreach Ministries, which bought a 119-acre
property on Brink Road north of
Germantown to build a church.
The church sued the county
for violating its rights to freely
exercise its religion. In January,
a federal appeals court reversed
part of a lower court’s decision
and sent that matter back to
federal district court for trial on
whether the county’s decision
violated the church’s rights under the Religious Land Use and
Institutionalized Persons Act.
The $1.25 million settlement will be used to resolve the
lawsuit claims and purchase an
agricultural easement for the
Brinks Road property, which
the church can still subdivide
into residential properties, said
Montgomery County Attorney
Marc Hansen.
The tract can be divided into
up to four residential lots, according to the settlement.
The county made a policy
decision that private institutional properties, such as
churches and schools, shouldn’t
RYAN MARSHALL
STAFF WRITER
DAN GROSS/THE GAZETTE
Andrew Fremming, owner of The Suite, gives Kurt Boehm of Silver Spring a
haircut. A state law limits the days a county barber shop can be open.
ver Spring just shy of four years.
While The Suite is only open
ﬁve days each week, Fremming
had no idea about the law.
Fremming said he thinks
few barbers know about it and
noted that the Board of Barbers
rarely checks up on his business, let alone enforces the
shop’s days of operation.
Luedtke suspects religion
as a reason, but Fremming suggested it could be the tradition
of barbershops being closed on
Mondays.
“It’s something that has
been going on for quite some
time,” he said.
As for Luedtke’s law, Vorgetts said it would not change
what the state does currently.
On Monday, the Board of
Barbers voted to support the
law if it goes before the General
Assembly in the 2014 session,
Vorgetts said.
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County pays $1.25 million to settle with church
n
County could withhold
payments or demand
money back from
contractor
be allowed in its agricultural reserve, Hansen said.
The county has “an interest
in maintaining open and rural
space and agricultural land in
the area,” according to the settlement.
Bethel has indicated it now
wants to develop property
at 1601 Norbeck Road, Silver
Spring to construct a 1,200-seat
church on property that previously belonged to Parker Memorial Baptist Church.
As part of the settlement,
the County Council agreed to
amend the county’s water and
sewer plans to accommodate
the 1,200-seat plan, subject to
several conditions. Those include Bethel possibly arranging
a shuttle service between the
new church and a commuter
parking lot at Norbeck Road and
Georgia Avenue to compensate
for a lack of adequate parking at
the new site.
Bethel also has expressed
interest in purchasing property
on Batchellors Forest Road in
Olney to use as a private school
that could also be used for
church services and related activities, according to the settlement.
Neither an attorney representing Bethel nor church
ofﬁcials could be reached for
comment.
The county sees the settlement as a win for everyone involved, Hansen said.
The county was able to preserve its policy of encouraging
agriculture in the reserve, while
Bethel is able to build a church
in Montgomery that meets its
need, he said.
rmarshall@gazette.net
Montgomery County could
withold payment or demand
money back from the contractor of the Silver Spring Transit
Center because of the cost of
repairing mistakes to the facility.
“Given the construction
deficiencies present in the
project...the county is well
within its contractual rights to
retain payment, or demand return of moneys already paid” to
Foulger-Pratt Contracting for
its work on the project, which
is “grossly” behind schedule,
according to a letter to the contractor from David Dise, director of the county’s Department
of General Services.
Foulger-Pratt released
a statement about the letter
Monday.
“Foulger-Pratt is in receipt
of a letter from David Dise, sent
in response to the letter sent
to David by Bryant Foulger on
September 10. We stand by the
statements made in our September 10 letter and have nothing further to add at this time.”
The two sides are engaged
in a dispute over ﬁxing cracks
in the $120 million transit
hub, including the use of a
latex-modiﬁed concrete as the
overlay product to make the
repairs.
The site at the corner of
Colesville Road and Wayne
Avenue in downtown Silver
Spring was scheduled to open
in 2011, but a series of cracks
found in the structure and
disparities in the thickness of
the concrete have delayed the
opening.
In a letter sent to Dise
Tuesday, Foulger-Pratt Managing Principal Bryant Foulger
said the facility likely won’t be
ready until at least summer
2014.
Foulger wrote that the ﬁrm
opposed the installation of
the concrete overlay because
it wouldn’t address the design
issue that caused the cracking
and long-term maintenance of
the concrete slabs.
In a release to The Gazette,
Foulger strongly opposed the
county’s approach.
“Our recommendations
with regard to the overlay have
been ignored in favor of an approach that we believe to be
highly inadvisable — an approach insisted upon by the
county’s design engineer over
our strenuous objections,”
Foulger wrote. “The designer’s
approach is technically ill-advised and ill-conceived.”
Dise’s letter, sent Tuesday, said the county blames
Foulger-Pratt for the problems
that have delayed the opening
of the center.
“The county will hold
[Foulger-Pratt] responsible for
all costs associated with correcting defects in the Project
caused by FPC,” Dise’s letter
said.
The letter argued that everyone except Foulger-Pratt,
its subcontractors and consultants have agreed that the
latex-modifed concrete is preferable to other alternatives.
And he left no doubt who
the county would hold responsible for ﬁxing the mistakes on
the project.
The county “fully expects
that any costs, and time, attendant to correcting such
conditions are and will be the
responsibility of FPC,” Dise
wrote. “The county has already
made payment for work since
determined to be defective.
Therefore, all costs incurred
to correct defective conditions
must be borne by the responsible parties.”
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 s
Page A-5
Rock Terrace audit ﬁnds ‘weaknesses’ County to merge
School system considers
adding ﬁnancial specialist
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BY
LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFF WRITER
Almost every area scrutinized in an audit of Rock Terrace School’s independent
activity fund contained weaknesses in its management,
school ofﬁcials said Friday.
“It was hard to tell from
the audit how many things the
school did right,” said Philip
Kauffman, vice president of the
Montgomery County Board of
Education.
The Rockville school serves
developmentally delayed students, and parents alleged last
summer that school staff misappropriated money students
earned in a work-study program.
The audit did not review the
money collected in the workstudy program, called Transition to Work. In the wake of the
allegations, school principal
Dianne Thornton retired in August.
Auditor Roger Pisha did
examine the school’s independent activity funds, which
a school mostly generates
through avenues such as its
PTA, booster club and activities such as the school’s cafe
and paper-shredding program
that generate funds for the
school and provide other workexperience opportunities for
students.
The audit period covered
Oct. 1, 2011, to May 31, 2013.
In an Aug. 19 report to the
school’s acting principal, Katherine Lertora, Pisha said he
found instances of improper
recording or poor reviewing of
the school’s ﬁnancial activity
with these funds, among other
issues.
“Almost all areas” the audit
examined contained “weaknesses,” said Larry Bowers,
chief operating ofﬁcer for the
school system.
“I would say this is pretty
unusual in terms of how many
areas have been identiﬁed,” he
said.
As a result, school system
officials now are considering
whether the Rockville school
may need an extra person on
staff to handle the financial
management responsibilities
that now fall to the school’s administrative secretary, Bowers
said.
Among other ﬁndings, the
audit report said school employees made expenditures
without properly documenting
the reason for them.
Some unexplained expenditures included magazine subscriptions, books, gift cards, an
iPod Nano and a trafﬁc citation,
according to the audit report.
“We did not ﬁnd any information that would lead us to
believe they were for personal
use,” Bowers said of the expenditures.
Some of the same expenditure items, including gift cards,
came up in a 2011 audit of the
school, which discovered the
items were given to students,
Bowers said.
The school system also
could not locate the logs where
school employees are required
to record purchases they make
with the school’s credit cards.
Rock Terrace also did not
follow ﬁnancial procedures for
its “business-like activities” that
were put in a place after a previous audit, the report said.
Bowers said he believes
those financial procedures
stemmed from the 2011 audit.
The business activities refer
to the work-experience opportunities available to students
in the school, Bowers said. The
report does not specify which
ones it is referring to.
Other issues identified in
the recently released audit report include: School employees
did not properly document fundraising activities; employees
did not submit some ﬁnancial
information related to field
trips; the school’s outdoor environmental education program
“I would say this is
pretty unusual in
terms of how many
areas have been
identiﬁed.”
Larry Bowers,
School system chief operating
ofﬁcer
account had excess money for
an undetermined reason; transfers were made between school
accounts without necessary signatures; and it was not always
clear whether the principal had
reviewed ﬁnancial reports in a
timely manner.
Bowers emphasized in an
interview that some of these
issues are not unique to Rock
Terrace.
They are also tied to teachers’ responsibilities, he said.
“This isn’t just about the
principal or the financial
agent,” he said.
Kauffman said responsibility for a school’s ﬁnancial management ultimately lies with the
leadership, but that teachers
should also have been aware of
their responsibilities.
With the school’s administrative secretary currently balances financial management
responsibilities with others,
Bowers said the school system
is looking into whether the
school may need a separate
person for the job.
The school system will provide a “visiting bookkeeper”
who will help the school’s administrative secretary as “a
stop-drop measure” until it decides whether a ﬁnancial specialist is necessary, he said.
Bowers said the school
once had a ﬁnancial specialist
position, but it was eliminated
in 2011. He said he does not
recall why exactly, but thinks it
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was related to a regular process
to identify possible reductions
in the school.
Every middle and high
school has a ﬁnancial specialist,
Bowers said. Each elementary
school has an administrative
secretary to handle financial
management responsibilities
along with other responsibilities.
Kauffman said Rock Terrace has fewer students than a
typical middle or high school.
The school system has developed a plan for the school
that outlines how it can improve its ﬁscal management.
Among other measures,
the plan includes training the
school system will provide for
the administrative secretary
and other employees.
A school employee at the
school’s main phone number
said Lertora had no comment
on the audit.
“I think the question is the
oversight that will need to be
provided by the central ofﬁce,”
Kauffman said.
Meanwhile, the county
State’s Attorney’s Ofﬁce continues to investigate the bank
accounts related to the school’s
Transition to Work program.
The school system has offered to do whatever it can to
help, but the bank accounts fall
outside of its authority to investigate, Bowers said.
Ramon Korionoff, a spokesman for the Montgomery
County State’s Attorney’s Ofﬁce, declined to comment on
the details of the case.
Kauffman said the school
board will have to “vigorously
follow up” on the remaining
questions regarding the student
bank accounts set up as part of
the work-study program.
“The board recognizes that
the system has a lot to do to redeem the trust of parents in the
community and make it right
by the families,” he said.
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two transitional
housing facilities
37-bed shelter
expected to open
in six to eight months
n
BY
ELIZABETH WAIBEL
STAFF WRITER
Montgomery County’s plan
to move two shelters to the White
Flint area will increase the number of beds available for men, but
leaves one fewer bed for women.
Nadim Khan, chief of specialneeds housing with the Montgomery County Department of
Health and Human Services, said
the White Flint facility will replace
two existing transitional housing shelters. Bethesda House in
Bethesda, which houses 15 men,
and Dorothy Day in Rockville,
which has room for 20 women,
will be combined into a 37-bed
shelter at 5320 Marinelli Road
near the White Flint Metro station.
Khan said the county will
rent the new building, which is
currently being renovated and
is owned by Marinelli Associates
LLC. He expects the current shelters to move there in six to eight
months.
The new shelter will have 19
beds for women and 18 for men.
Khan said the existing shelter has
19 women staying there now; the
shelter is not going to kick anybodyoutduringthemove,hesaid.
“The shelter’s not at full capacity right now, and transition
is going on anyway — people are
coming in and out of the shelter,”
he said.
Khan said the new shelter will
have three more spaces for men.
“There are more men in our
transitional shelters, and there’s
more pressure to serve men,” he
said.
The women’s part of the new
shelter will have single beds instead of bunk beds, like the Dorothy Day shelter has. Khan said the
single beds will be safer than bunk
beds.
“Even if we have one less bed,
it’s a safer environment,” he said.
The new building also will
have more space for programs
and activities during the day, as
wellassharedkitchensandshared
dining halls, Khan said.
Catholic Charities, which operates the existing shelters, also
will operate the new shelter, Khan
said.
Eric Salmi, director of communicationsforCatholicCharities
of the Archdiocese of Washington,
said his organization supports
combining and relocating the
shelters. “It’s not going to change
anything in the way the two shelters operate and the population
they serve,” he said.
Khan said combining the two
shelters should help the county
save money.
“The day programs are going
to be more robust because there’s
more space available,” he said.
Lindsay Hoffman, executive director of Friends of White
Flint, said the organization has a
few questions about the shelter
that haven’t been answered yet
because the plans were just announced, such as what services
would be offered during the day.
“We have no objections to
a well-run facility being run in
White Flint,” she said.
In January, volunteers
counted 1,004 homeless people
living in the county, according
to the Metropolitan Washington
Council of Governments.
Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human
Services has 11 shelters with 95
beds for families and 130 beds for
individuals, said Mary Anderson,
a county spokeswoman. During
the winter, the county opens up
an 244 more beds, and it also has
provided hotel rooms for families
when the family shelters have run
out of beds, she said.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 s
Community-supported farms
succeeding despite weather
n
Fall planting underway
BY
DARREN ANKROM
SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
Richard DelGrande, 29, of Silver Spring is a scarecrow at Field of Screams Maryland. The haunted attraction opens Friday night in Olney.
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Field of Screams opens for the season
More thrills, more
effects make attractions
scarier than ever before
n
BY
TERRI HOGAN
STAFF WRITER
Organizers of the Field of
Screams Maryland say that new
lights, props and sound effects
elevate Olney’s haunted attraction to the level of a Hollywood
production.
Field of Screams, hosted by
the Olney Boys and Girls Community Sports Association,
opens Friday night, and continues each weekend through
Nov. 2.
This year marks the event’s
11th anniversary. Association ofﬁcials say that Field of
Screams Maryland is the largest and most popular haunt in
Maryland, Washington, D.C.
and Virginia, offering four spectacular haunts spread over 50
acres at the Community Park at
Freeman Fields, located at 4501
Olney Laytonsville Road.
Last year, more than 10,000
mustered the courage to experience Field of Screams. The
event, which costs “tens of
thousands” to put on, is one
of OBGC’s largest fundraisers.
Organizers say their goal is to
make $75,000. Admission costs
range from $10 to $84, depending on the date and attraction.
Paintball Apocalypse, a
popular attraction new last year,
returns. Visitors ride on a custom-designed double-decker
wagon, while shooting glow-inthe-dark paintballs at zombies
who are attacking the vehicle.
Other attractions include
the Lusion Manor haunted
house, where visitors will navigate through an all-new experience of 13 professionally
designed rooms; the Hades
Hayride; and the most popular attraction —Trail of Terror,
which features several new stations and effects.
Sports Association Chairman Dan Dionisio said they
have built a professional team
of the best haunt designers,
makeup artists and actors in
the country to elevate the event
to one of the top in the nation.
“Each year we challenge
ourselves about how we can
improve the experience for our
guests,” he said. “Members of
our creative team now include
the best designers in the world
that you can get your hands on
and we are honored that they
want to be part of our project —
the national haunt business now
knows where Olney, Md., is.”
He said that while he does
not want to give away any surprises, he believes people will
be shocked by the level of sophistication and scares offered
this year.
“The industry is noticing us
and asking to visit, which is a
big compliment,” said Dionisio.
He said volunteers, paid
staff and management team
make it all happen, with help
from many third-party organizations that provide expertise in
safety, lighting and sound, prop
design and production.
Mike Lado, 25, of Olney
has been involved with Field
of Screams for several years.
A longtime fan of the horror genre, he started out as a
makeup artist, and is now an
effects specialist, working on
prop work, painting and set design.
“Field of Screams is very
professional and definitely a
business,” he said. “It is geared
to be the biggest and the baddest for the guests that come
through, to really experience
the horror season.”
He said fresh changes keep
people coming back year after
year.
“I deﬁnitely believe we have
upped the ante,” Lado said.
“We’ve made some major adjustments that will leave people
horriﬁcally surprised.”
The event also features
bonﬁres where guests can roast
their own s’mores, and purchase favorites including fried
Twinkies and Oreos, funnel
cakes, hot chocolate and other
refreshments.
There are several special
guest appearances planned,
including visits by local radio
stations. Other special events,
including Military Night and
Midnight Madness offering
expanded hours, will be announced on the website and on
social media sites.
The full schedule, pricing information, and discount
tickets are available on www.
screams.org.
Heavy rain, pesky insects and
swinging temperatures followed
by an August drought made 2013
a tricky year for agriculture in
Montgomery County, but several
local community-supported agriculture farms reported success
nonetheless.
“I’ve been here for 25 years.
We have not seen, in recent memory, challenges like we are seeing
this year,” said Jeremy Criss, the
county’s agricultural manager.
Amongthosechallenges,Criss
noted heavy rains in June, stink
bugs and kudzu beetles and the
lack of rainfall in August and early
September.
Community-supported agriculture is a burgeoning industry in
Montgomery County, one that’s
boomed in the past five years,
Criss said. Buyers typically pay upfront for a “share” of locally grown
produce which is then regularly
delivered throughout the summer
and fall.
Montgomery County has 12
community-supported agriculture farms, plus 14 that do not
grow in the county but have local
delivery points, according to the
Montgomery Countryside Alliance website.
At Query Mill Hill Farm in
North Potomac, the cool, wet
spring caused rot in a portion of
the onions and potatoes, farm
President Mark Israel said. Nevertheless, deliveries have been consistent, production “enormously
high” and every bag has arrived
stuffed with “a little more than
they paid for,” he said.
Eliminating corn, which is
very energy- and land-intensive
and produces little ﬁnancial return, has freed up space to plant
more of the farm’s other crops,
Israel said.
Red Wiggler Community
Farms in Clarksburg operates the
county’s longest-running CSA,
started in 1996. This year the
farm faced diseased peppers and
parsley, said Executive Director
Woody Woodroof. The farm also
missed a small tomato planting in
June because of wet weather.
“It has been challenging, but
we’ve met our weekly goals,”
Woodroof said. “We rely on diversity. We’ve got 40 other crops that
are actually doing fairly well.”
The use of trap crops, such as
sunﬂowers and buckwheat, has
helped mitigate effects of an unpredictable growing season. They
serve as protectors, coaxing stinkbugsandotherpeststothemwhile
shielding the true prizes, patches
oftomatoesandpeppers“hidden”
nearby. A wildflower patch sits
adjacent, where the “good bugs”
hide out and emerge to prey on
the“badbugs”lurkinginvegetable
patches, Woodroof said.
The challenging season has
claimed at least one victim so far.
Blue Tomato Farms near Annapolis, which has several drop-off locations in Montgomery County,
announced in mid-July that its
community-supported agriculture program was shutting down.
In a letter posted online, owner
Shawn Sizer noted wild temperature swings in May — with some
days dipping into the upper 30s
and others topping 90 degrees —
as part of the decision. Deer, bug
and diseases also factored in.
For Sandy Spring CSA, produce is grown in Lancaster
County, Pa., for delivery in Silver
Spring. Deliveries have been consistent, reported farm administrator Benjamin Zuses. Product
diversity also has helped; Sandy
Spring offers an herbal medicine
bundle,featuringcreams,teasand
balms, a package inherently less
vulnerable to weather and bugs.
Although pleased with the
Red Wiggler CSA’s performance
thus far, Woodroof noted there is
still a signiﬁcant work to be done
and challenges ahead.
“Our fall planting is always
challenging to get to germinate
... [There could be] hurricanes,
winds blowing things down,
we could be inundated by stink
bugs,” Woodroof said. “We still
have half our season to go. Anything could happen.”
Fall starts Sunday.
Staff Writer Peggy McEwan
contributed to this report.
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Coalition wants schools to
close on Muslim holidays
Group asks staff,
students to stay home,
celebrate Eid al-Adha
on Oct. 15
n
BY
LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFF WRITER
A coalition of local Muslims
and others are urging Montgomery County Public Schools
to close on two holidays, which
the coalition’s co-chair, Saqib
Ali, framed as a civil rights issue.
Besides an amended
county school system calendar, the Equality for Eid
Coalition — sponsored by
the Maryland chapter of the
Council of American Islamic
Relations — wants students
and staff members to skip
school on Oct. 15 and instead
celebrate Eid al-Adha.
Supporters can sign the
coalition’s online petition at
www.equality4eid.com. As of
Tuesday, it had about 260 signatures.
The coalition, which
formed about a year ago, also
wants schools to close when
classes conﬂict with another
Muslim holiday, Eid al-Fitr.
However, for at least the next
three years, Eid al-Fitr will fall
on days during the school system’s summer break.
Both Eid holidays fall on
different days each year, as
they follow the Islam lunar calendar.
Eid al-Adha marks the Hajj
pilgrimage to Mecca. Eid al-Fitr
celebrates the end of Ramadan,
according to the coalition’s
website.
The issue was discussed
by the county Board of Education in November 2012, when
it opted not to close school on
the Muslim holidays after parents and community leaders
requested it.
School system staff reported at the time there was
not a high absentee rate on the
holiday in the past three years.
Ali — a state delegate from
2007 to 2011 who has ﬁled to
run again next year — said,
however, the coalition thinks
attendance is “not the right
question to ask.”
The decisions to close
school on or near Christian
and Jewish holidays were not
based on similar analyses of attendance records, Ali said, and
Muslim holidays should not be
held to a different standard.
“If we’re only going to use
them (the attendance studies)
for certain communities, that’s
not equitable,” Ali said.
Ali said the number of
Muslim students in the county
school system is unknown.
“But we know there’s a signiﬁcant number and it seems
to be growing,” he said.
According to its website,
the coalition’s supporters include Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett, County
Council President Nancy Navarro, and seven state senators
and delegates.
Montgomery County Board
of Education member Philip
Kauffman (At-large) of Olney
said it boils down to what the
law allows.
“We need evidence of student absences or staff absences
that would impact on the delivery of instruction,” he said.
The school system will
monitor absences this year, he
said, though past studies in recent years have not indicated a
“discernable trend.”
Schools close on Christian
holidays such as Christmas and
Good Friday under state law.
Chief Operating Officer
Larry Bowers said the school
system added Jewish holidays
such as Rosh Hashanah and
Yom Kippur based on low attendance from Jewish teachers
and students on the holidays.
The school system, however, does not have records
showing how it came to the
decision in the early 1970s, he
said.
Since then, Bowers said,
case law has arisen that lets
districts close schools only for
secular purposes.
“We make it clear that these
are excused absences, but we,
at this stage, we really need to
follow the law,” Kauffman said.
The school system recognizes both Muslim holidays
by declaring them nontesting
days and giving Muslim students excused absences.
Mimi Hassanein, outreach
coordinator for the Islamic
Society of Germantown, said
she personally has advocated
on this issue for about 25 years
and joined the campaign about
a year ago.
Hassanein has had three
children go through the
county school system and has
ﬁve grandchildren currently
attending. She said she has
had a “positive” experience
in her efforts to help educate
school system teachers and
staff about Muslim holidays
and culture.
Yet, she wants schools to
close in observance of the Eids,
either entirely or just for students.
Hassanein said the school
system has been more sensitive
to Muslim students and staff by
trying not to schedule exams or
introduce new topics in class.
But, she said, “it varies from
school to school. It’s not set in
stone.”
In her experience, she said,
about half of Muslim families
have their children miss school
to celebrate an Eid holiday.
Montgomery County
Council member George L.
Leventhal (D-At large) of Takoma Park has supported efforts to close school on Muslim
holidays in the past and said
he thinks the school system
eventually will decide to close
schools.
“It poses a conﬂict for people who want to exercise their
right to religious observance,”
Leventhal said.
If schools remain open,
he said, parents and students
“highly motivated toward academic achievement” will go to
school instead of celebrating.
If schools were open on a
Jewish holiday such as Rosh
Hashanah, Leventhal said, he
thinks “a substantial number”
of Jewish students would attend classes.
Leventhal said the school
system has “a lot of ﬂexibility” when it comes to closing
schools.
“They’ve drawn the line at
Christians and Jews, and that’s
exclusionary,” he said.
Area mosques and organizations, including Jews United
for Justice, which has an activism focus in the Washington,
D.C., area, are supporting the
campaign.
Rebecca Ennen, the organization’s development and
communications manager,
said generally holidays are
“crucial and central” to a religious group’s community and
identity.
“When those don’t get recognized, it’s a real negation of
what our values are and what
we stand for,” she said.
The coalition will hold a
press conference outside the
Montgomery County Council
Ofﬁce Building in Rockville on
Sept. 23 to announce itself and
its mission.
The school board is scheduled to discuss the issue next in
the fall of 2014.
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Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) welcomes guests to the Montgomery County Executive Hispanic
Gala on Thursday at The Fillmore Silver Spring.
County Executive Isiah
Leggett celebrated the Montgomery County Executive Hispanic Gala on Thursday at The
Fillmore Silver Spring. During
the event, 25 Latino students
each received a $2,000 scholarship from the Montgomery
Hispanic Gala Fund.
According to an official
press release, Leggett also recognized three awardees: Maria
Socorro Garcia, an English for
speakers of other languages
counselor with Montgomery
County Public Schools, who
was named Educator of the
Year; Montgomery College
President DeRionne Pollard,
Advocate of the Year; and U.S.
Labor Secretary Thomas E.
Perez, who won the Public Service Award. The event kicked
off Hispanic Heritage Month
in Montgomery County and
the state.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 s
Howard professor Darian
Zokle to focus on economic
equality during District 20 run Unger seeks District 20 seat
n Cultural competency,
mental health advocacy also
will be part of campaign
BY
KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFF WRITER
Silver Spring attorney George
Zokle has always thought about
running for ofﬁce and while he
said there is never a perfect time
to run, his time is now.
Zokle, 34, is seeking one
of three seats in the Maryland
House of Delegates representing
District 20. More than a dozen
candidates have been rumored
for the June ballot in District
20. Del. Heather Mizeur’s decision to run for Maryland governor means her District 20 seat
will be up for grabs. Incumbent
Dels. Sheila Hixson (D) and Tom
Hucker (D) are running for reelection.
A Democrat, Zokle has built
a platform that focuses on not
just the political usuals of a
stronger economy, preserving
the environment and improving
schools.
Instead, he said he looks to
tackle those issues by addressing economic equality, cultural
competency and mental health
advocacy.
Zokle said maximizing every
individual’s skills and education creates opportunities for
personal ﬁnancial success and
entrepreneurship.
“When an economy starts
pushing downward, I would like
to empower the people to push
back,” he said.
As a lawmaker, he would
fight for programs that allow
businesses to come together and
utilize one another rather than
stand alone, he said.
But in a district as diverse as
District 20 — which spans portions of Silver Spring and Takoma
Park — he said there are cultural
barriers to education, opening a
business or obtaining health care.
Issues of language, communication and tolerance need to
be addressed, he said.
But what he is really passionate about is mental health.
Zokle said mental health
seems to only come up when talking about gun violence or institutions, and it still bears a stigma.
In Maryland, mental health
has lost in the budget year after
year, he said.
For Zokle, the focus needs to
be on mental health ﬁrst, physical health second.
“I see a path to victory in this
campaign,” he said. “When I apply my model of integrating cultural competency and mental
health advocacy and economic
equality and tie that into those
major issues, I believe that is
what will lead me to victory. I
believe that will lead the citizens
of District 20 to victory.”
Actively campaigning for the
seat, Zokle said he is currently
knocking on doors and organizing fundraising events. His goal
Unger: ‘I’m really
connected to the
community’
n
BY
KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFF WRITER
DARIAN UNGER
Darian Unger, 40, seeks the Democratic nomination for the Maryland
House of Delegates in District 20.
is $100,000. He has not yet ﬁled
with the Board of Elections.
While he has supporters on
board with his campaign, none
have ofﬁcial titles as of yet, such
as campaign manager, he said.
A native of Ohio, Zokle came
to Maryland because he sought a
more diverse and open community. He has lived here about eight
years.
He holds a bachelor’s from
Youngstown State University in
Youngstown, Ohio, a masters
degree from Johns Hopkins University and his law degree from
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He currently
practices law independently,
speciﬁcally civil litigation.
He said on Tuesday that
he plans to ﬁle for the race on
Wednesday.
kalexander@gazette.net
As an engineer, a university professor, a volunteer ﬁreﬁghter and rescuer, and a father
of three young children, Darian
Unger is a problem solver.
And the problems that currently have his attention are in
Annapolis.
Unger, 40, of Silver Spring
is seeking one of three seats
in the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 20.
More than a dozen candidates
have been rumored for the
Democratic primary ballot in
District 20 in June.
Del. Heather Mizeur’s (D)
decision to run for governor
means her District 20 seat will
be up for grabs. Dels. Sheila
Hixson (D) and Tom Hucker
(D) are running for re-election.
Among a growing ﬁeld of
House hopefuls, Unger said he
stands apart from the lawyers
and young politicos gunning
for the seat.
“A key difference about me
isn’t just that I’m progressive,
but that I have a track record of
effective local advocacy, that I
know our neighborhoods, and
that I’m so connected to our
community,” Unger said.
Unger teaches business at
GEORGE ZOKLE
George Zokle is running for Maryland
House of Delegates in District 20.
Howard University School of
Business, teaching his students
how to innovate and start new
companies. He teaches and
conducts research on innovation, entrepreneurship and development of environmental
energy technologies.
He also volunteers as an
emergency medical technician
and ﬁreﬁghter with the Silver
Spring Volunteer Fire Department.
Volunteering as a ﬁreﬁghter
and EMT is the most exciting
and helpful form of community
service, he said.
At the heart of Unger’s
campaign for ofﬁce is sustainable development, shaping the
community to ensure a future
for his children and future generations.
Issues such as reliable electricity, carbon emissions, fair
wages for workers, affordable
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and access, environmental
protection and progressive tax
policies are all areas where the
state could improve, and are
areas where Unger already has
a track record of local advocacy, he said.
But sustainable development also requires public health
and safety measures, such as
stronger domestic violence laws,
he said.
Responding to incidents,
ﬁres and crashes, Unger has
seen ﬁrst-hand the weaknesses
in the system, from the laws
designed to protect domestic
violence victims to the design
of roads and intersections.
“Being in ﬁre service does
color your view of public safety
and I want to be able to see
crimes better enforced, and
I want the police to have the
tools they need to do that,” he
said. “Everyone calls 911 — it
does not matter if they are rich
or poor, homeowner or renter.”
In addition to his work at
Howard and with the ﬁre department, Unger chairs the District
20 Democratic caucus, serves
on the board of Action Committee for Transit and the steering
committee of Progressive Neighbors and is a past chairman of
the Silver Spring Citizens Advisory Board and the Silver Spring
Transportation and Pedestrian
Safety Committee.
“I’m really connected to
the community, to our community,” he said.
He and his wife, Jill Clark,
have three children, ages 7,
5 and 2, two of whom are in
Montgomery County Public
Schools.
As a parent, he has seen the
hard work and dedication of
teachers and said he never again
wants to see education threatened.
“I want a strong education
system that doesn’t involve punishing Montgomery County and
that actually provides the resources and compensation that
teachers need,” he said.
Unger has a history as a
government watchdog, and
said he hopes to improve accountability and transparency
in Annapolis.
“I can be watchdog but also
like working as team,” he said.
“One person howling in the
wind won’t get much done.”
Unger said he hopes to
join Hucker and Hixson on the
District 20 House team and to
get there, he is running a grassroots campaign.
While he said he is raising
money, he has not yet set a
fundraising goal, as many factors will determine how much
he needs to raise.
Fundraising, he said, is not
“everything.”
Unger holds a bachelor’s
from Swarthmore College in
Pennsylvania, and a master’s
and doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 s
CITIZENS
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test in which students drew a poster
for the new citizens to take home along
with their citizenship certiﬁcate. She
stood in front of the new Americans,
congratulated them and gave the poster
she drew of an American eagle and
Statue of Liberty.
“It was really cool and made me realize how lots of people take for granted
how many rights we have,” Stefanie
said.
The 26 citizenship candidates were
from Argentina, Brazil, Cameroon,
China, the Czech Republic, Egypt, El
Salvador, Ethiopia, Germany, Ghana,
Haiti, Honduras, India, Iraq, Malaysia,
Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Korea and
Vietnam.
Among them was 64-year-old
Cheng-Seng Lim. The U.S. Postal Service employee from Boyds moved to
America in 1971 from Malaysia. He
was only 20 years old, looking for better opportunities, economic stability
and freedom. Lim married and raised a
family, but only now feels like they are
“ﬁnally one.”
Meanwhile, Wilson Reis, 25, moved
to the U.S. in 2006 from Brazil and now
lives in Silver Spring. Reis has plans to
study at Montgomery College to become an engineer, and said he felt accomplished and free after receiving his
citizenship certiﬁcate.
COMPLIANCE
Continued from Page A-1
sure, regulation and education
division of the county’s Department of Liquor Control. “The
young people are trained to
not trick anyone. We just want
to check to see if businesses
are carding and not serving to
people under 21.”
Volunteers testing for legal
sales use their real, state-issued
IDs, which have a bright red
box around the portrait and
the block script “under 21 alcohol restricted.” The IDs also say
what day the person will turn
18 and 21.
Volunteers can’t lie about
their age or refuse to show servers their IDs. They can’t wear
excessive makeup or have facial
hair, which might make them
look older. If a server or bartender refuses to serve them,
they must leave immediately,
police said.
“That’s the disadvantage
we have ... but kids going in are
going to lie and do whatever
they can to get alcohol,” said
Montgomery County Police
Ofﬁcer Bill Morrison, a 20-year
veteran of the county’s Alcohol
Enforcement Unit. Morrison
said police only use volunteers
younger than 20, so they won’t
be 21 if summoned to testify in
a court case. Navarette made
compliance checks from the
time she was 17 until last year,
when she turned 20.
Waiters and clerks usually
are taken aback when someone underage actually presents
identiﬁcation, said Ron Price,
compliance manager with the
county’s liquor control department.
“A lot of people make the
assumption that if the under-21
[customer] showed me their ID,
they must be 21,” he said. “Otherwise, why would they show
me?”
Businesses must be prepared and alert to prevent serving minors, Price said.
“You’re not serving a CocaCola, for crying out loud,” he
said. “You’re serving a beverage
that may change someone’s behavior. You should have someone properly trained.”
Of the 400 county businesses tested in the last ﬁscal
year, which ended June 30,
111 sold alcohol to minors,
meaning 72 percent passed,
according to Emily DeTitta,
the Department of Liquor Control’s licensing and outreach
manager. During those 111
failed tests, 39 times employees looked at volunteers’ IDs
and still completed a sale, DeTitta said.
In fiscal year 2012, 102
TRIAL
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Arrest records say Rivas
raped the girl, now 15, in a men’s
changing room, then gave her
$100.
The girl’s mother, 41, from
Germantown, ordered her
daughter to have sex with Rivas even after the girl begged
her not to, telling her in one
instance, “I’ve done a lot of
bad things to make you have
a good life. Go with him,” ac-
During the week prior to the ceremony, students at the Rosa Parks
Middle School were quizzed during
the morning announcements with the
same government and civic questions
that naturalization candidates face on
their citizenship test.
“It is just the sheer appreciation. [It
is] really understanding the process and
what it takes to become a citizen and
being able to see the real deal,” Jones
said.
Ana Giordani-Richter, 41, of Silver
Spring, a ﬁfth-grade teacher at Rock
Creek Forest Elementary School in
Bethesda, also became a new American on Tuesday. She met her future
husband in Argentina, where she was a
lawyer, and moved to the U.S. in 2008.
Giordani-Richter began volunteering in
schools and decided to get a master’s in
teaching from the University of Maryland.
“It is a long road. The whole immigration process and the whole paperwork ... so I am really happy,” she said.
“This is important for us as a family.”
Students sang the national anthem
and led the new citizens in the Pledge of
Allegiance. The school orchestra played
“America the Beautiful” and a video
was shown in which students shared
what it meant to be an American citizen
and congratulated the new Americans.
Jones ended the ceremony by calling the new citizens “my fellow Americans” and thanked them for “choosing
the United States of America as their
new home.”
of 400 businesses that were
checked sold alcohol to minors,
meaning 75 percent passed.
Of those 102 failures, 50 times
servers or clerks asked for ID,
yet went ahead with the sale.
“Our compliance rate is not
getting better,” Durbin said.
When Navarrete started
doing checks — sometimes she
went to 20 businesses a night —
she had a limited knowledge of
alcohol, so police ofﬁcers took
her around to liquor stores to
show her types of booze she
might run into, she said.
Police said the tests are an
important part of keeping teens
safe and avoiding unnecessary
and avoidable fatalities and injuries.
Underage drinkers don’t
know how to drink responsibly,
which can have deadly consequences, Morrison said.
“It’s a perfect storm leading
to disaster — an inexperienced
drinker and an inexperienced
driver,” he said.
Rachel, of Rockville, began
performing alcohol checks at
age 15. Now 17, she is studying
criminal justice at Towson University. The Gazette is not publishing her last name to protect
the integrity of future compliance checks.
Her photo, though, is
widely used by the Department
of Liquor Control in an educational poster about serving alcohol to minors.
Even after years of compliance checks, Rachel said, she
still gets uncomfortable.
“I get nervous when there
are other people around ... or
if I’m the only customer. ... It
looks funny,” she said.
When an establishment
makes an illegal sale, the Department of Liquor Control
cites the business, Durbin said,
and issues other penalties, such
as fines or mandatory trainings. The county has an ALERT
— Alcohol Law Enforcement
Regulatory Training — class for
restaurant workers and owners.
A restaurant also can get
a fine, usually of $1,000 to
$20,000, Durbin said.
The server gets a criminal
citation and could face ﬁnes,
community service or additional training.
Navarrete, who studies psychology at Trinity Washington
University in Washington, D.C.,
used to feel bad when businesses and servers were cited.
“Some people would get in
a lot of trouble,” she said.
After a while, her opinions
shifted. “These people are selling to minors,” she said. “And
that’s how accidents happen.”
If a sale was made, Rachel
said, she left the establishment.
Then, police ofﬁcers went incording to the charging documents.
When the victim’s mother
was arrested, the woman told
police she had left the girl alone
with Rivas for only about 10
minutes, the documents said.
Rivas is charged with 13
counts of rape, sexual abuse,
and other charges.
Esteban Gergely, Rivas’ attorney, could not be reached
for comment. Rivas has a trial
scheduled for next month.
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Principal Donna Redmond Jones and others listen as eighth-grader Kimberly Greulich sings the national anthem during Tuesday’s naturalization ceremony at Rosa Parks Middle School in Olney.
side and explained the result
of the check and the potential
consequences, she said.
Maryland’s driver’s license system makes it easier
for clerks and servers to distinguish underage customers.
People younger than 21 receive
a vertical license — like a standard, horizontal license, but on
its side.
“Most of the time they look
at it and seem confused or they
don’t know what to look for,”
Rachel said. “It’s not every
single one, but it’s more than it
should be.”
She said she thinks servers might be distracted, or just
want to make a sale. Many
waiters have served her even
after she’s shown her ID, she
said.
Now in her third year as a
volunteer, Rachel knows the
value of what she does.
“I’m around people who
are on the other side of what
I’m doing because a lot of
people my age do drink,” she
said, referring to peers buying
alcohol illegally. “It’s concern-
ing because there are so many
indicators of my age.”
“I’m kind of proud,” Rachel’s mother said in an interview. “She’s on the good side of
drinking, working at the compliance checks, instead of going
to underage parties and getting
citations.”
Rachel has made her share
of enemies among clerks and
shopkeepers.
“I’ve had people start yelling at me and telling me I’m
crazy and I should never come
back here,” she said. “I’ve had
people think they know what’s
going on and tell me, ‘Go tell
your inspector friend to stop
what they’re doing.’”
“It can be intimidating,”
said Price, the county compliance manager. “Some people
can get really pissed off about
it.”
Still, Rachel isn’t fazed.
“I feel like it’s a service to
save people’s lives and prevent
underage drinking,” she said.
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THE GAZETTE
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 s
State police
turn to others
to help with
gun permits
BY DOUGLAS TALLMAN
AND RYAN MARSHALL
STAFF WRITERS
An opinion from an ofﬁcial in
the state Attorney General’s Ofﬁce says state employees from
outside Maryland State Police
can help deal with the backlog of
applications for gun purchases.
Del. Kevin Kelly (D-Dist. 1B)
of Cumberland wrote the Attorney General’s Ofﬁce Sept. 8 to
rule on the legality of using the
outside employees.
The reply, from the ofﬁce’s
chief counsel, Adam D. Snyder,
is that the system is legal.
“Although I understand the
concern, in my view the [Maryland State Police] does perform
the review and investigatory functions under the arrangement discussed above; the [state police]
has simply borrowed employees
from other units of the Executive
Branch to enable it to effectively
and efﬁciently perform the clerical
work associated with carrying out
its statutory duty,” Snyder wrote.
“When entering data into
the [state police] database, those
employees function as the [state
police’s] agents for that task,” he
wrote. “I am not aware of any legal
principle that would prevent one
State agency from making its employees available to assist another
State agency in this manner.”
A controversial gun-control
law that takes effect Oct. 1 will
place new restrictions on buying
certain weapons, prompting a
surge in applications. To handle
the backlog, up to 200 employees
from the departments of Health
and Mental Hygiene; Public
Safety and Correctional Services;
Human Resources; and Juvenile
Services had been working since
Sept. 6 to enter data from more
than 38,000 applications.
State Sen. Nancy Jacobs last
week called for a federal investigation into whether the practice
violated the applicants’ privacy.
In his letter, Snyder said he didn’t
believe the system breached an
applicant’s privacy.
Jacobs said Tuesday she was
concerned that the data entry was
not secured.
“There’snoguaranteethatthe
data isn’t out there being used by
somebody for identity theft. It’s is
a huge exposure,” said Jacobs (RDist. 34) of Abingdon.
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rmarshall@gazette.net
POLICE BLOTTER
The following is a summary
of incidents in the Silver Spring/
Takoma Park area to which
Montgomery County and/or Takoma Park police responded recently. The words “arrested” and
“charged” do not imply guilt.
This information was provided
by the county and Takoma Park
police media services ofﬁce.
3RD DISTRICT
Aggravated assault
• On Aug. 26 at 10:20 a.m. in
the 13900 block of Castle Boulevard, Silver Spring. The subject
is known to the victim.
• On Aug. 28 at Highland
View Elementary School, 9010
Providence Ave., Silver Spring.
No further information provided.
• On Aug. 31 at 12:11 a.m. in
the 400 block of Deerﬁeld Avenue, Silver Spring. The subject
is known to the victim.
Armed robbery
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• On Aug. 28 at 1:50 p.m. in
the 9000 block of Piney Branch
Road, Silver Spring. No forced
entry, took property.
• On Aug. 28 at 8:42 p.m. at
Shell Gas Station, 11150 New
Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring.
The subject threatened the victim with a weapon and took
property.
• On Aug. 31 at 1 a.m. in the
9200 block of New Hampshire
Avenue, Silver Spring. The subjects threatened the victim with
a weapon and took property.
• On Aug. 31 at 2:40 p.m. in
the 11500 block of Stewart Lane,
Silver Spring. The subject threatened the victim with a weapon
and took property.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 s
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County men die in Navy Yard shooting Nighttime task
BY
SARAH SCULLY
STAFF WRITER
Two of the victims identiﬁed in Monday’s shooting at the
Washington Navy Yard were residents of Montgomery County.
According to D.C. Metropolitan Police, John Roger Johnson,
73, of Derwood and Vishnu Pandit, 61, of North Potomac were
among 12 people shot and killed
by a gunman at the Navy Yard in
Southeast Washington.
The suspected gunman,
Aaron Alexis, was killed in a
shootout with police; the FBI is
seeking information about him.
According to The Washington Post, Pandit was a civilian
employee of the Navy for more
than 25 years.
He was born in Mumbai,
India, in November 1951 and
moved to
the U.S.
when he
was in
his 20s.
He attended a
marine
e n g i neering
college
Vishnu B. Pandit
in Calcutta and later enrolled at the
University of Michigan in 1974
before moving to Maryland and
raising two sons with his wife,
Anjali Pandit.
The Post reported that a
Hindu service will be held for
Pandit and that the family has
requested donations in lieu of
ﬂowers to the Wounded Warriors Project, organizations supporting the Navy or the Humane
Society of Montgomery County.
One neighbor called Pandit
“a very good friend, a very good
person,” before declining further comment.
Another neighbor who also
declined to provide her name
said, “I think everyone’s just in
shock.”
Pandit and his wife “were
very good friends. They would
do anything for their neighbors.
He will be greatly missed, he was
such a sweet man,” she said.
“Everybody loves them.”
Pandit loved his golden retriever, Bailey, she said.
“You can live next to some-
body forever and not know the
intimate details of their life, but
what you do know about him
you love,” the neighbor said.
Johnson also was a civilian
employee of the Navy.
One of his neighbors told
The Washington Post that Johnson “always had a smile on his
face,” adding that Johnson had
lived in the neighborhood for
more than 30 years.
Johnson was further described as a “smart man.”
“He loved children. He loved
our grandchildren. No one
could ask for a better neighbor,”
she told The Post.
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Group: Nonproﬁts losing access to venues
n
Application process
delays bookings
BY
ALINE BARROS
STAFF WRITER
A change to a county policy
that was aimed at getting nonprofits and residents a price
break to use to county facilities
may in fact be backﬁring.
The Montgomery County
Executive and the County
Council created the Community
Access Pilot Program in 2013 to
help county residents and nonproﬁts have easier access to facilities such as the Silver Spring
Civic Building at Veterans Plaza
at a reduced rate. But a change
in the way the program is administered is blocking some organizations from getting the
dates they want at the facilities.
In the old policy, created in
ﬁscal year 2013, organizations
were able to ﬁle an application
to get up to a 50 to 75 percent
discount through the Montgomery County Use of Public
Facilities department while at
the same time securing the desired date at the venue.
Administrators at the public
facilities department, however,
decided to change the policy for
2014 because they found some
institutions canceled their event
after ﬁnding out they did not
get as much money as expected
from the program. That meant
the venue then had an open
date that could have been ﬁlled
by full-rate paying users.
Under the new regulations,
applicants now have to wait up
to 45 days for paperwork to be
processed by the facilities review
committee before they can conﬁrm a rental date.
“By the time they [organizations] are approved for the
program ... some of the dates
have already been secured by
other interested parties,” said
Evan Glass, the chair of the Silver
Spring Citizens Advisory Board,
who wrote a letter on Sept. 10 to
County Executive Isiah Leggett
(D), council President Nancy Navarro (D-Dist.4) of Silver Spring,
and council member Valerie Ervin (D-Dist.5) of Takoma Park.
In the letter, Glass explained
that the nonproﬁt organization
Gandhi Brigade tried to apply
for CAPP funding in July 2013
for its May 2014 Youth Media
Festival ten months prior to the
event, but had to withdraw the
application because they did
not want to risk losing the one
weekend available in the venue’s calendar by waiting 45 days
for paperwork to be processed.
To ﬁx the problem, the advisory board is recommending the
county revert back to the original process allowing community users to lock down a date
through a standard booking or
through a county-sponsored
booking, in parallel to the application for a reduced CAPP rate
at the venue.
“Our recommendation,
hopefully, will put us on a path
to increase access for everybody,” he said, adding he felt the
current system created a disadvantage due to a “bureaucratic
burden.”
But Ginny Gong, executive
director of the Montgomery
County Use of Public Facilities,
said she thinks the new regulations may be the solution to
the booking issues and doesn’t
anticipate making the change
back.
Gong, who had no knowledge of the letter from Glass,
said that the county has to best
maximize the use of the resources to meet the needs of the
program.
“We have to look at fairness,” Gong said and added that
some institutions had “no real
commitment” and would cancel the events after the facilities
department had secured a date
with the chosen venue.
According to an information guide provided on the facilities department website,
the pilot program is intended
to provide ﬁnancial assistance
and increase opportunities to
groups, organizations and community members. To be eligible,
a group has to be a local-based
nonproﬁt, provide proof of registration and serve Montgomery
County residents.
For example, a five-hour
event at the Great Hall room in
the Silver Spring Civic Building
after 3 p.m. on Saturdays can
cost $1,500 without additional
staff fees. With the discounted
rates, however, rental prices can
vary from $375 to $750.
“I do want to make sure to
force wrapping up
Members preparing
ﬁnal recommendations
n
BY
STAFF WRITER
The Nighttime Economy
Task Force has one month
to ﬁnalize suggestions to the
county on improving nightlife
and local economies.
The county task force met
Monday to discuss draft recommendations before its ﬁnal
meeting in October. Three residents attended the meeting at
BlackRock Center for the Arts
in Germantown.
The recommendations
include forming urban noise
districts where businesses or
recreation departments could
set up performances or music
events that run late into the
evening. The districts would
increase the allowed decibel
range and extend the hours
noise will be allowed in that
area.
Jonathan Sachs, a member
of the task force’s business engagement subcommittee, suggested a concierge service for
business owners. Businesses
that are interested in moving
into the county or relocating
within it would meet with the
corresponding county staff
representative, or “concierge,”
for that geographic area. The
concierge would guide them
through the moving process.
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The Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza in downtown Silver Spring.
acknowledge the immense appreciation for this program,”
said Busy Graham, founder of
Class Act Arts, a nonproﬁt arts
outreach organization based in
Silver Spring. Graham reafﬁrms
the recommendation made by
Glass and added, “We are willing to put money down in order
to secure the date, and move
ahead with promotion, publicity and sponsors for the event.”
abarros@gazette.net
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The service is intended to
make businesses feel “like they
have a friend in the county,”
Sachs said.
Tina Benjamin of the
county’s Department of Economic Development also
presented the department’s
strategic plan for ﬁscal 2014.
Benjamin said the county will
focus on job creation, marketing its own initiatives and enticing businesses to relocate to
Montgomery.
County Executive Isiah
Leggett (D) appointed the
21-member Nighttime Economy Task Force in May. The
group’s objective is to increase
nighttime business and social
activity, which would boost
local economies and provide
employment in the county.
The task force, headed
by Greater Bethesda-Chevy
Chase Chamber of Commerce
board member Heather Dlhopolsky, consists of business
owners, county staff, chamber
of commerce members, municipal employees and representatives for elected ofﬁcials.
The task force’s subcommittees are scheduled to meet
on Tuesday in Germantown,
then offer policy recommendations with a presentation to
the county before the end of
the calendar year.
scarignan@gazette.net
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Stand back
In Montgomery County, the public is now getting
mixed messages on the mechanics of solicitation.
Last week, the county urged motorists to refrain
from giving money to panhandlers. The county’s
advisory was framed in two ways. One, you can’t be
sure if the money you give will be wasted or feed an
addiction. Two, it’s hazardous for people to stand
along the road and beg from motorists during a ﬂeeting lull in trafﬁc.
The better course, the
county says, is to donate
COLLECTING to social service organiMONEY
zations that know the
ROADSIDE IS
plight of the homeless
A HAZARD, NO and how best to come to
MATTER WHO IS their aid.
Our instincts of deDOING IT
cency make it tough to
ignore direct pleas from
the needy. Stepping over
and past someone camped on the sidewalk — jobless, homeless and possibly hopeless — is a clash
between of mind and heart.
Note that Montgomery County is not telling us to
stop giving generously. In fact, the county’s advisory
is a reminder that we might not know beyond what
we see. We don’t know who on the streets is addicted
and to what. We can’t possibly ﬁgure out, in a snap
decision, the most efﬁcient way to be charitable.
At the same time, the county’s professed concern
about roadside solicitation creates a puzzling false
dichotomy. Why is it unsafe for panhandlers to stand
on a curb or median strip and ask for money, when
Montgomery County ﬁreﬁghters are allowed to do it?
In their annual “Fill the Boot” drive for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, ﬁreﬁghters blanket
local roads for a few days. They collect money from
motorists on main roads when trafﬁc stops. This
practice has been the subject of much wrangling
among county elected leaders, state legislators from
Montgomery and the ﬁreﬁghters’ union.
Separate bills from Montgomery’s state lawmakers have tried to limit roadside solicitation, including
the “Fill the Boot” campaign. One bill, which passed,
lets the county create a permit system for individuals
or groups to collect money along the road. A second
bill, which failed, would have limited fundraisers to
sidewalks and median strips, out of the roadway,
according to Del. Aruna Miller (D-Dist. 15) of Darnestown, who supported that bill instead.
County Councilman Phil Andrews, who opposes
roadside solicitation as a safety hazard, said the new
permit authority, should the county exercise it, is unlikely to solve the problem. People still could walk in
the road as they ask for donations.
You would expect ﬁreﬁghters, thoroughly trained
for dangerous jobs, to be more mindful and cautious
along the road than the average person. Yet, that’s
no guarantee of safety. Andrews points to cases in at
least two other states in which ﬁreﬁghters were injured during similar fundraising efforts.
One was in California. A 2010 story in the Whittier (Calif.) Daily News says a ﬁreﬁghter crossing the
road during an MDA “Fill the Boot” drive was hit by a
small pickup truck. According to a police ofﬁcer who
responded: “Technically (the driver) had the right of
way. He was not at fault. Chances are (the ﬁreﬁghter)
didn’t see the truck and the truck never saw him
coming.”
Miller, a trafﬁc engineer, voices a succinct objection: “Roads are not meant for commerce. They’re
meant for travel.”
Unquestionably, Montgomery County’s ﬁreﬁghters, mirroring altruistic departments across
the country, are doing yeoman’s work in directing
money toward MDA.
MDA has come to rely greatly on “Fill the Boot”
money. In 2011, when a debate ﬂared up about fundraising, and ﬁreﬁghters kept to the road’s edge, donations sank, from the typical $250,000 to $94,000.
After 28 years of MDA drives, county ﬁreﬁghters
had raised an amazing $1.8 million. Some years, they
are among the nation’s most proliﬁc ﬁreﬁghting fundraisers for MDA.
But just as the county’s advisory is right for panhandling, the same safety sense should be imposed
on all streetside fundraising. There are too many distractions on the roads and in our vehicles. Common
sense tells us that it’s a bad idea to sanction people
walking among motor vehicles and having monetary
transactions from drivers, however worthwhile the
cause.
Let’s return to old techniques to reach the public,
and ﬁnd new ways. Approach people when they have
a chance to absorb the message and thoughtfully
react to it. The space outside heavily visited commercial, community or government buildings are
all reasonable spots. Social media can help, and The
Gazette is glad to spread the word, too.
Surely, this community would rally to help ﬁreﬁghters meet their fundraising goal in a different
way.
Safety and generosity would both thrive, without
cutting into each other.
The Gazette
Karen Acton,
President/Publisher
LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR
Coaches need coaching on tackling
I was glad to read that The
Gazette is paying attention to
the serious issue of concussions
in high school football. [“Concussion awareness starts at the
top,” Sports, Sept. 4]. However,
this story reports that football
coaches in Montgomery County
Public Schools are teaching
dangerous “helmet on the football” tackling.
Since the 1970s, initiating
contact with the front or top of
the head has been prohibited by
the National Federation of High
School Athletic Associations
and NCAA. The technique is
prohibited because it increases
the risk the tackler will suffer a
catastrophic and sometimes
deadly cervical neck injuries.
But the story reports that, in
Prince George’s County, “helmet on the ball is preached.”
In Montgomery County, Walter
Johnson High School football
coach, John Kadi, was quoted
as saying, “It should be helmet
on the ball.”
Last month, I heard the
football coach at Walt Whitman
High School tell parents that he
too taught “face mask on the
football” tackling.
The widespread ignorance
on this important issue among
football coaches suggests that
referees for MCPS and PGCPS
football games are not calling
face tackling penalties. In its annual survey of football injuries,
NFHS underscores the danger
of tackling with the front or top
of the helmet “initial contact
should never be made with the
head/helmet or face mask.”
But NFHS notes, “at the
present time, ofﬁcials are not
calling all helmet contacts.”
According to National Association of Athletic Trainers,
the proper tackling technique
is to initiate contact with the
shoulders and chest. Coaches
in Maryland, however, are not
required or expected to know
this long-standing technique
that was adopted to reduce catastrophic cervical neck injuries.
But just across the Potomac,
football coaches at every one of
Fairfax County’s 24 high schools
are taking the Heads Up course,
which is aligned with the shoulder and chest tackling technique.
Unfortunately, the leadership for high school athletics
in Montgomery and Prince
George’s counties, and at Maryland Public Secondary Schools
Athletic Association, have not
required football coaches to
have training in current football
fundamentals so that they teach
safe tackling.
Instead, the leadership
seems to think that high school
football coaches should be
allowed to coach whatever
they remember, or think they
remember, from when they
played in college or high school.
The story says that Maryland
high school football coaches are
limited this year to two full contact practices per week (plus
one game). If coaches in Prince
George’s and Montgomery
counties are coaching dangerous tackling techniques, this is
two practices too many.
Tom Hearn, Bethesda
Panhandling doesn’t help the needy
I was pleased to see your
coverage of the new county initiative to discourage panhandling. However, I wish the story
placed more emphasis on the
problems that prompted this
new program, problems which
we at Interfaith Works face with
our clients on a daily basis.
Panhandling is not just a
distraction that is dangerous
for both drivers and panhandlers. Panhandling is a practice
that does little or nothing to
get at the underlying, complex
problems of poverty, homelessness and addiction. Dropping
a buck in a cup is a short-term
response that doesn’t usually
bring about the changes that
needy and homeless people
require to get to a better, more
stable place in life. In fact, studies show that money often goes
not for food or other essentials,
but to fuel negative habits, including purchase of drugs, alcohol and tobacco.
The initiative led by County
Executive Isiah Leggett and
County Council member
George Leventhal offers a welcome alternative to redirect the
generosity of folks who want to
do something to help. Using a
simple text message, concerned
individuals can send a donation
that the Community Foundation for Montgomery County
will then distribute to groups
like ours. Of course, a concern
that comes with this initiative
is that people just may stop giving altogether. It is easy to not
put a dollar in a cup, and then
forget to send money through
the Community Foundation
or through other direct service
agencies.
For those who still wish
to help panhandlers directly,
there are alternatives to cash.
Another helpful approach is
keeping packets of small necessities in the car to offer to individuals. These could contain
PowerBars, water bottles, nonperishable foods, toiletries and
the like.
We and our partner agencies are on the front lines, working with homeless and needy
people to help them move from
crisis to stability over the longterm. As long as drivers keep
dropping change into those
cups, panhandlers will keep
coming to car windows at busy
intersections. It’s time to take a
different approach: give a hand
up, not a handout.
Text “SHARE” to 80077 to
give $5 to support programs
that provide a hand up to the
needy in Montgomery County,
or please consider providing
basic necessities instead of
cash directly to panhandlers
through essentials packs kept
in your car.
James Mannarino, New Market
The writer is the executive
director of Interfaith Works,
a Rockville-based nonproﬁt
agency and a non-sectarian
interfaith coalition working to
meet the needs of the poor and
homeless.
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Ten Mile
Creek opinion
ill-informed
The Gazette’s editorial position regarding proposed development in the Clarksburg area and
Ten Mile Creek is ill-informed
and shortsighted. It reads like it
was written a half-century ago
without the beneﬁt of knowledge
of the county’s earlier attempts to
save other streams.
And the suggestion that the
developer Pulte has the best interests of Montgomery County
residents at heart when it comes
to stream quality and protection
is laughable. This stream means
nothing to Pulte except perhaps as
an advertising backdrop for their
sales brochures.
Ironically, they propose to
call their development “Ten Mile
Creek” but perhaps “Forget Ten
Mile Creek” would be more ﬁtting.
In 1986, my family bought a
property in a new, lovely development in what is now North Potomac. That house backed to Rich
Branch Creek, a tributary of Muddy
Branch Creek, and over the 16-plus
years we lived there, I saw a gradual
degradation of the creeks within
our neighborhood, despite wellintentioned planning with “stream
valley park” designation and stormwater pond management and modest stewardship by the neighbors.
It was disheartening and disturbing to see ﬁrsthand the changes
that occurred from just houses,
streets and driveways — without
shopping centers or parking lots in
the mix.
My story of one creek was probably played out thousands of times
over the years at other new housing developments in watersheds
around the county. We should
have learned some lessons from
this, but now we have one goodquality creek left in all of Montgomery County and we want to risk
its water supply with development
and the use of the “old” conservation methods, with a few new techniques thrown in? Do we really dare
risk it? Really?
The prudent course is to stop all
development in the Ten Mile Creek
watershed and save this Montgomery County treasure. New development can go elsewhere — just not
here.
Julia Larson Wurglitz, Gaithersburg
POST-NEWSWEEK MEDIA
Karen Acton, Chief Executive Ofﬁcer
Michael T. McIntyre, Controller
Lloyd Batzler, Executive Editor
Donna Johnson, Vice President of Human Resources
Maxine Minar, President, Comprint Military
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THE GAZETTE
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 s
Why are they leaving?
My Aug. 23 column “Taxpayers Exiting Maryland” drew some
heated responses from readers believing factors other than taxes and
cost of living are causing the exoduses.
Bill Nickerson of Silver Spring
pointed out that warm-weather
states are the top “winner states” in
the taxpayer migration derby, “So
are more people moving to Florida,
Texas, North Carolina, Arizona
and Georgia for better weather, or
for lower taxes and more Republicans?”
Mike McCracken of Bethesda
believes that
routine turnover in Congress and the
administration as well as
out-migration
of students
and government workers
hired to betterpaying jobs
MY MARYLAND
are major
BLAIR LEE
causes, not
taxes.
According to the IRS, 1,335,104
U.S. citizens moved into Maryland
from other states between 2000
and 2010 while 1,401,377 Maryland
citizens moved away, a net loss of
66,273 people (only nine states lost
more people).
Unfortunately, the move-aways
took their income with them, a net
taxable income loss of $5.5 billion
which, if taxed at 7 percent, is an
annual $385 million revenue loss
to Maryland and its local governments.
Yes, many factors cause people
to move: climate, housing costs, jobs,
retirement, schools, health, crime
and so on. But taxes are at the top of
the list and inﬂuence the other factors. For instance, many Marylanders move to adjoining states seeking
less-expensive home prices. But
Maryland’s high housing costs are
largely due to taxes, fees and environmental regulations that drive up
construction costs and closing costs.
Likewise, retirement relocations are
greatly driven by taxes.
Gazette staff writer Kevin Shay
wrote a follow-up story conﬁrming that high taxes are chasing away
Marylanders.
“Real estate agents I’ve talked
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with say the exodus from Maryland
is astonishing,” said Constance
Khim, who relocated to Florida in
May. And Julie Ann Garber, an estate attorney who also migrated to
Florida, said, “My ﬁrm has worked
with many clients who have
changed their domicile from Maryland, New York and other states
to minimize their income tax bills
and/or estate tax bills.”
The IRS data doesn’t lie. Look at
the top seven “winner states” that
drained off the most Marylanders
between 2000 and 2010. I’ll grant
you that many or most of the 80,376
net population loss to Florida,
North Carolina and South Carolina
was due to retirement, although
many Marylanders are avoiding income taxes by establishing Florida
residency. That way a $500,000 income earner can save more than
$42,500 a year in income taxes.
But how do you explain the net
loss of 88,762 Marylanders to the
adjoining states of Pennsylvania,
Virginia, Delaware and West Virginia? Did they really move across
the border for the weather?
Former Maryland governor Bob
Ehrlich recently was contacted by a
Pennsylvania congressional candidate asking Ehrlich to campaign
with him in York, Pa. Why? Because,
he explained, so many Pennsylvania voters are former Marylanders
that know Ehrlich better than any
Pennsylvania politicians.
I’m amazed at how many letters
and emails I receive from readers
who are either moving away or glad
they did. And here’s what they say:
David Winkler, La Plata: “I used
to enjoy the idea that my family was
growing up with family and friends
who have remained for several generations around Charles County.
Sadly, I told them it is not a matter of IF I move, but WHEN. Every
time I pick up a newspaper I hear of
a new fee or tax from the state. My
wife and kids can’t afford to live in
Maryland any longer.”
rate (from 4.75 to 5 percent) may
not seem like much to some people,
but for those of us who barely make
it into the six-ﬁgure category, boosting taxes is worrisome. It’s time to
leave Maryland.”
Barry Siegle, Ellicott City: “The
rain tax is a frigging crime and another way to tax the people to death.
I will be looking for a way to move
outta this frigging state.”
Harry O’Sullivan, Sykesville: “This
news makes me want to leave the
state. I’m retired, 67 years old, have
paid for a home in Sykesville on 1
acre. We love this area, but how much
can we take living on ﬁxed income?”
“I own a small business with 45 employees, I am 60 years old and always planned on buying land here
and retiring here. NOT. I’m getting
outta Dodge and I hear the exact
same thing from every friend of my
age group.”
May Post, Rockville: “The proposed increase in the income tax
Blair Lee is chairman of the
board of Lee Development Group
in Silver Spring and a regular
commentator for WBAL radio. His
column appears Fridays in the
Business Gazette. His past columns
are available at www.gazette.net/
blairlee. His email address is blairleeiv@gmail.com.
David Lindoerfer, Silver Spring:
David Eastman, Pawleys Island:
“I owned some land in Bishopsville,
Md., where I was going to retire but I
just could not stomach the high taxes
and regulations in Maryland so I sold
my land and bought my Pawley’s Island, S.C., home. (My property taxes
are $600 a year and I pay very little in
state income taxes).”
Jackie
Neschen,
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Elkridge:
“Could you please get me a list of
the tax increases that O’Malley has
enacted? I want to pass it to my liberal friends who just bought two
homes in Florida and are leaving
Maryland due to high taxes.”
Lee Trunnell, Rockville: “As
a lifelong Marylander, except for
four years in the Navy, I am ready
to pack up and leave and my wife
is ready to move, too. Probably to
Virginia.”
Todd Johnson: “My family have
been in Maryland since the 1600s. If
I could sell my house for as much or
more than I paid, I would move to
Northern Virginia tomorrow.”
Raymond Lombardo, Rockville:
“Yesterday my wife was at lunch
at her law ﬁrm during a presentation on various new Maryland laws.
At the end of the presentation, the
partner making it said, ‘And we
wonder why so many of our clients
are moving to Virginia?’”
Anecdotal evidence? Yes, but
ignore at your own risk.
A college program
to help new Americans
A world-renowned singer from Ethiopia forced to leave her country due to
persecution and fear of imprisonment
or death; a single father from Sierra Leone trying to escape famine and war and
keep his children alive after the execution of his wife; two inseparable sisters
from Iran determined not to become victims of a dictator’s regime. Their stories
are only a few of the many students who
participate in the citizenship program of
Montgomery College to become naturalized U.S. citizens.
On Tuesday, our country celebrated
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day.
During Constitution Week, Sept. 16-23,
thousands will become citizens at naturalization ceremonies and vow to support
and defend the Constitution. They’ll recite the Pledge of Allegiance and wave the
American ﬂag. It’s a joyous event to witness
because, for new citizens, getting to this
milestone takes hard work and preparation.
At Montgomery College, we provide
lawful permanent residents the support
they need on their paths to citizenship. It
is a privilege to work with these aspiring
citizens, and we now have an even greater
ability to assist those in our community
through a grant from the U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services. We are one of 40
organizations across the country to receive
this grant, totaling approximately $250,000
for the next two years.
The college’s citizenship program,
with legal services provided by Catholic Charities of Washington, proposes
to serve 600 legal permanent residents,
with low to intermediate levels of English
language skills. The new funding award
allows the college to continue to provide innovative learning opportunities
for students to access civic and citizenship engagement experiences outside
the classroom. Students volunteer in the
community, visit local historical sites and
attend public meetings. Providing these
options gives students the opportunity to
connect English to their daily lives.
This is the fifth year USCIS has
awarded grants to expand the availability
of high-quality citizenship preparation
services, and the fourth year of funding
for Montgomery College. With this grant,
our efforts will have a greater impact,
helping even more immigrants improve
their English language skills, learn about
history and government and the rights
and responsibilities that deﬁne citizenship.
With civic integration comes participation — in service groups, school boards,
and many other worthy causes. This citizen-driven participation is a hallmark of
what makes this country great. At Montgomery College, we are proud to be a part
of a process that is vital to our country and
our community, and look forward to serving 600 legal permanent residents as they
pursue their dreams of becoming U.S. citizens.
Nancy Newton, Silver Spring
The writer is special programs director/
citizenship program director at Montgomery College.
Praise for Blair Lee
It has been a distinct pleasure reading the
many letters protesting Blair Lee’s op-ed column. One can practically hear the politically
correct crowd choking and sputtering with
righteous indignation as Mr. Lee skewers the
liberal orthodoxy again and again.
Many of your readers are simply unable
to accept Mr. Lee’s critique of what passes
for accepted truth, nor can they forgive his
exposes of blatant manipulation of the political process by the same folks that they
vote for year in, year out.
One reader complained that it is hard to
believe that running Mr. Lee’s column comports with the philosophy of your bosses at
Post-Newsweek Media. I concur, and compliment you in the highest terms for your
courage in allowing Mr. Lee to repeatedly
challenge the conventional wisdom.
Mr. Lee, please keep giving us your
fresh insights and offering us an alternative
to mainstream groupthink. Your column is
a breath of fresh air.
Barry Miller, Bethesda
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“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken
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EERIE & EFFECTIVE
The Gazette’s Guide to
‘Insidious: Chapter 2’ is a jumble, but it works.
Arts & Entertainment
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TONY DEMARCO AND SIOBHÀN BUTLER
n When: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25
n Where: Takoma Park Community Center,
7500 Maple Ave., Takoma Park
n Tickets: General admission, $16 in advance, $20 at the
door. Students, $12 in advance, $16 at the door
n For information: 301-960-3655, imtfolk.org
|
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Two of a kind
BY
CARA HEDGEPETH |
STAFF WRITER
|
Page A-15
Irish musician,
dancer bring
unprecedented act
to Takoma Park
Irish fiddler Tony DeMarco and percussive
dancer Siobhán Butler are a groundbreaking duo in
the American world of Irish song and dance.
“This is one of the ﬁrst American duos that are
combining these two styles together,” Butler said.
“It’s something new, it’s a new idea and it’s kind of
a trend I guess ...”
Butler and DeMarco, who will be performing
Sept. 25 in a show presented by the Institute of Musical Traditions at the Takoma Park Community Center, combine the sean-nós style of Irish dance with
New York/Sligo ﬁddle music.
Unlike traditional Irish dance, sean-nós, or old
style, is considered a casual dance form characterized by steps that are close to the ﬂoor with a resemblance to tap dancing.
Michael Franti & Spearhead have
been a band since 1994. They got
their ﬁrst Top 20 hit last year with
“Say Hey (I Love You).”
LAUREN DUKOFF
See TWO, Page A-19
Say hey
BY
n
CARA HEDGEPETH
“All People” tour stops by
STAFF WRITER
Fillmore Saturday on the heels
Siobhan Butler and Tony
DeMarco will perform as a duo
in Takoma Park as a part of the
Institute of Musical Traditions
fall concert lineup.
KEEGAN GRANDBOIS
of latest album
THEATER
Goodnight noises
everywhere
n
Ultimate bedtime story begins at Glen Echo
BY
CARA HEDGEPETH
STAFF WRITER
T
he San Franciscobased musician and
leader of Michael
Franti & Spearhead
has been preparing
for the band’s ﬁrstever performance
at the Fillmore in
Silver Spring on Saturday. Here, A&E
catches up with the socially conscious
singer about the success of the band’s
single “Say Hey (Love You),” his charity work and why he’s been barefoot for
more than 10 years now.
A&E: Your single “Say Hey (Love
You)” from the 2008 album, “All Rebel
Rockers” was on the Top 20 Chart for
According to actress Anissa Hartline, “Goodnight Moon”
is one of her son’s favorite books. Hartline said 20-month-old
Cameron also loves playing with the “Goodnight Moon” app on
her iPad.
“When you touch the screen, different objects pop up ... the
kittens meow,” Hartline said. “It’s kind of like the world Roberta
has created.”
63 weeks. It also had a ton of commercial play including on an episode of
“Weeds” and in the movie “Valentine’s
Day.” Were you anticipating the success?
Franti: No. Not at all. We started in
1994 and that [song] became a hit in
2010 so it was like 16 years of overnight
success [laughs]. We’ve never had a
song in the top 20,000 let alone the
Top 20, so we were like, “This is a big
surprise.” We’re all just grateful for the
success the last few records have had.
Really well-received by both our fans
and the radio.
See FRANTI, Page A-19
See GOODNIGHT, Page A-19
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD
n When: 8 p.m. Saturday
n Where: Fillmore Silver Spring, 8656
Colesville Road, Silver Spring
n Tickets: $35
n For information: 301-960-9999,
ﬁllmoresilverspring.com
BRUCE DOUGLAS.
Anissa Hartline as Old Lady Whispering Hush, Colin Cech as Bunny and
Maya Brettell as Mouse in “Goodnight Moon.”
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BIG
WORLD
‘Big Top,’
“Agnes Under the Big Top” continues to
Sept. 28 at the Round House Theatre in Silver
Spring. Presented by Forum Theatre, Aditi
Brennan Kapil’s tall tale follows six individuals — a Liberian nurse, a Bulgarian one-time
ringmaster and his wife, an Indian subwaydriver trainee, a nomadic busker, and a bedridden woman — in a comic adventure about
immigrant life in America. Directed by Michael Dove, open forum discussions
will follow Wednesday, Thursday,
and Saturday evening shows. For
more information, visit www.
forum-theatre.com.
MICHAEL F. SHIBLEY
Michael F. Shibley’s “Man on the
Street,” watercolor.
Pâté by
numbers
“Pâté Painters,” featuring original artwork by ten local artists, will
be on view Saturday and Sunday at
the Yellow Barn Studio Gallery in
Glen Echo. A mixture of mediums
will be featured, including acrylics, watercolors, pastels, and oils.
The Pâté Painters are a group of
local artists who meet weekly for
critiques, painting, food and fellowship. Show hours are noon
to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5
p.m. Sunday. A “Meet the Artists”
reception will be held from 2-5
p.m. Saturday and from 2-4 p.m.
Sunday. For more information, call
301-371-5593.
Actress Nora Achrati plays Bulgarian
immigrant Roza in “Agnes Under the
Big Top,” to Sept. 28 at the Round
House Theatre Silver Spring.
NORA ACHRATI
Revolution road
Monotype ‘Memories’
Takoma
Park-based activist musicians
emma’s revolution will share a
Activist folk duo emma’s revolution.
PHOTO BY TOM WOLFF
double bill with
socially conscious
Americana band
The U-Liners at 8
p.m. Saturday at
the Takoma Park
Civic Auditorium,
7500 Maple Avenue, Takoma
Park. Tickets are
$18 in advance
and $22 at the
door. For more
information, visit
emmasrevolution.com/live or
visit www.uliners.
com.
“Memories, Mythologies, Symbols and
Archetypes,” featuring
the work of artist Sara
B. Peck, is currently on
view to Sept. 30 at the
River Road Unitarian
Universalist Congregation, 6301 River Road,
Bethesda. Beck’s work
spans multiple mediums, from printmaking and photography
to video. Her images
in the show highlight
an ongoing series of
monotypes initially
launched in 2005. A
reception is scheduled
from 3-5 p.m. Sept.
Sarah B. Peck’s “Horses.”
29. Show hours are 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday
through Friday, and select weekend hours. For more information, visit www.rruuc.org.
SARAH B. PECK
Call today for a
free lesson tonight!
www.dancesilverspring.com
1907038
301.681.4466 • 10801 Lockwood Drive Suite 150, Silver Spring, MD 20901
1894431
1894429
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IN THE ARTS
DANCES
Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthur Blvd.
Contra, Sept. 20, Beth Molaro
calls to Tidal Wave; Sept. 27, George
Marshall with Wild Asparagus, 7:30
p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen
Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $10,
www.fridaynightdance.org.
Contra & Square, Sept. 29,
Wild Asparagus, 7:30 p.m., Glen
Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, $12
for general, $9 for members, $5 for
students, www.fsgw.org.
English Country, Sept. 18,
Caller: Tom Spilsbury; Sept. 25,
Caller: Joseph Pimentel, 8 p.m.,
Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs),
www.fsgw.org.
Scottish Country Dancing, 8-10
p.m. Mondays, steps and formations taught. No experience, partner necessary, T-39 Building on
NIH campus, Wisconsin Avenue
and South Drive, Bethesda, 240505-0339.
Swing, Sept. 21, The Craig
Gildner Big Band; dancing at 9
p.m., Glen Echo Park, $15, www.
ﬂyingfeet.org.
Waltz, Oct. 6, Larry, Elke and
Friends; Oct. 20, Gigmeisters,
2:45-3:30 p.m. lesson, 3:30-6 p.m.,
dance, $10, www.waltztimedances.org.
Institute of Musical Traditions
— Takoma Park, Tony DeMarco &
Siobhán Butler, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25,
Takoma Park Community Center,
call for prices, times, Takoma Park
Community Center, 7500 Maple
Ave., Takoma Park, 301-960-3655,
www.imtfolk.org.
Institute of Musical Traditions —
Rockville, The John Jorgenson Blue-
grass Band, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30, Saint
Mark Presbyterian Church, 10701
Old Georgetown Road, Rockville,
call for prices, www.imtfolk.org.
Strathmore, Afternoon Tea,
1 p.m. Sept. 17-18, 21, 24-25; Pet
Shop Boys: Electric, 8 p.m. Sept.
19; Sachal Vasandani Quartet, 7:30
p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Sept. 20; BSO:
Scheherazade and 1812 Overture,
8 p.m. Sept. 21; BSO: Thibaudet
Plays Bernstein, 8 p.m. Sept.
26; Warren Wolf and the Wolfpack, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27; Sandy
Hackett’s Rat Pack Show, 8 p.m.
Sept. 27; National Philharmonic:
Beethoven’s Eternal Masterworks,
8 p.m. Sept. 28, call for venue, Locations: Mansion, 10701 Rockville
Pike, North Bethesda; Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman
Lane, North Bethesda, 301-5815100, www.strathmore.org.
ON STAGE
Adventure Theatre, “Goodnight
Moon,” Sept. 20 to Oct. 27, call for
prices, times, Adventure Theatre
MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen
Echo, 301-634-2270, www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org.
Imagination Stage, “Lulu and the
Brontosaurus,” Sept. 25 to Oct. 27,
call for prices, times, Imagination
Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda,
www.imaginationstage.org
Olney Theatre Center, Bedlam
Theatre presents “Hamlet” and
“Saint Joan,” to Oct. 20, call for
prices, times, 2001 Olney-Sandy
Spring Road, Olney, 301-924-3400,
www.olneytheatre.org.
The Puppet Co., “Totally Tiny
Tots,” Sept. 18 to Oct. 13; Tiny
Tots @ 10, select Wednesdays,
Saturdays and Sundays, call for
shows and show times, Puppet Co.
Playhouse, Glen Echo Park’s North
Arcade Building, 7300 MacArthur
Blvd., $5, 301-634-5380, www.
thepuppetco.org.
Round House Theatre,
Bethesda, “This,” Oct. 9 to Nov.
3, 4545 East-West Highway,
Bethesda. 240-644-1100, www.
roundhousetheatre.org.
Round House Theatre, Silver
Spring, “Agnes Under the Big
Top,” presented by Forum Theatre, to Sept. 28, call for show
times, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver
Spring, $15 for general admission,
$10 for subscribers, patrons 30
and younger and seniors, 244-6441100, www.roundhousetheatre.
org.
1894433
Hollywood Ballroom, Sept. 18,
free International Waltz Routine
lesson at 7:30 p.m., Ballroom
Dance at 8:15 p.m. ($16), Sept. 20,
drop-in lessons from 7:30-9 p.m.,
West Coast Swing Dancing with
Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m.
($15); Sept. 21, free Tango lesson
at 8 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance
at 9 p.m.; Sept. 22, free Hustle lesson at 7 p.m., Social Ballroom at
8 p.m. ($16); Sept. 25, free International Waltz Routine lesson at
7:30 p.m., Social Ballroom at 8:15
p.m. ($16); Sept. 26, Tea Dance
from 12:30–3:30 p.m. ($6), 2126
Industrial Highway, Silver Spring,
301-326-1181, www.hollywoodballroomdc.com
p.m. Sept. 22 ($45); Gotta Swing
Dance Night with Bitter Dose
Combo, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25 ($10);
Eric Felten & His Jazz Orchestra, 8
p.m. Sept. 27 ($25), 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, 301-634-2222,
www.bethesdabluesjazz.com
The Fillmore Silver Spring, Yellowcard Ocean Avenue Acoustic —
The Tour, 8 p.m. Sept. 18; Savant,
8 p.m. Sept. 19; Michael Franti &
Spearhead, 8 p.m. Sept. 20; Jamey
Johnson with special guest Chris
Hennessee, 8 p.m. Sept. 22; Billy
Currington, 8 p.m. Sept. 27; Get
the Led Out, 8 p.m. Sept. 28; 8656
Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 301960-9999, FillmoreSilverSpring.
com, www.livenation.com.
MUSIC & DANCE
Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper
Club, Michael Gallant, 8 p.m. Sept.
18; Beverly McClellan, 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 19 ($25); Cassandra Wilson,
8 p.m. Sept. 20 ($50) The Music of
Abba with Arrival from Sweden, 8
1895321
1906800
1910939
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 s
At Strathmore, jazz from the heart
Vasandani brings
personal take to songs old
and new
n
BY
VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFF WRITER
Jazz singer Sachal Vasandani
imitated other singers when he
ﬁrst began learning his art as a
boy, but now in his mid-30s, he
does it his way.
The New York City vocalist,
composer and arranger presents
unique interpretations of jazz
and pop classics made famous
by Sinatra, Fitzgerald and others, but he also sings his own
compositions.
“I love what I do,” said Vasandani, who will perform with
his trio on Friday at the Mansion at Strathmore in North
Bethesda.
No stranger to Washington, D.C., venues, Vasandani
has previously appeared at
the Kennedy Center, Blues Alley and Bohemian Caverns, as
well as the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College
Park and the Birchmere in Alexandria.
Vasandani said he expects
to sing songs from his three
CDs, which include “Eyes Wide
Open” (2007); “We Move”
(2009); and “Hi-Fly” (2011), the
latest being a mix of standards,
originals and pop covers.
Performing with him will be
bassist David Wong, pianist Jeb
Patton and drummer Kendrick
Scott.
Known for his on-stage calm
and nuance, Vasandani does not
rely on volume to get his music
across.
Vasandani said he learned a
lot about phrasing from Sinatra
and appreciated Sinatra’s attention to detail and playfulness.
Sinatra, Fitzgerald and Vasandani are three of the many
singers who have recorded the
1934 song, “The Very Thought of
SACHAL VASANDANI
QUARTET
n When: 7:30 p.m. and 9:30
p.m. Friday
n Where: Mansion at
Strathmore, 10701 Rockville
Pike, North Bethesda
n Tickets: $30
n For information: 301-5815100, strathmore.org,
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You,” a tune by Sid Ascher that
has stood the test of time.
“[If] it happens to be a good
song ... that still makes sense,
that resonates with you as an
artist and helps you tell your
own story that much more
richly, then it’s cool,” said Vasandani in “Hi-Fly” promotional
materials on his website.
Also in his repertoire are
contemporary songs, such as
the 2006 song, “Love is a Los-
ing Game,” sung and written
by the late Amy Winehouse,
as well as music he has written
himself.
“I’m always presenting
new songs that have a personal
[quality]. ... Lyrically, a lot of
them are some form of love
song,” he said.
Although his lyrics are often
about love and loss, Vasandani
said he will sometimes offset
that with a brightness in the
music.
“I like to throw it against
a fun tempo, something with
charm and lightness,” he said.
A Chicago native, Vasandani
was drawn to jazz early, thanks
in part to his parents, who encouraged him to listen all kinds
of music, including Indian classical music as well as Western
genres.
“I absorbed all the music on
the radio and ﬁgured out how to
listen to music,” he said.
He also learned to play the
piano, bass guitar and French
RAJ NAIK
Jazz singer Sachal Vasandani and his trio will interpret a mix of jazz and pop
standards during two shows on Friday at the Mansion at Strathmore.
horn, catching a glimpse of his
future as a singer while still in
middle school.
At the time, Vasandani was
struggling to master the French
horn in the school band and
also singing in the jazz choir
across the hall, he said during
an interview with Jon Weber on
NPR’s “Piano Jazz: Rising Stars”
in 2012.
“I would raise my hand to
do a scat solo on one of the jazz
choir songs and found out that
the ideas that were in my head
were coming out a lot easier in
my voice than on the French
horn,” Vasandani said during
the interview.
Later at the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor, he studied Western classical music and
opera “to build my best voice.”
“The door has always been
open for other music to seep in,”
he said.
But it was his early exposure to jazz that ultimately prevailed.
“What I liked about jazz is
the sense of individuality and
the freedom,” Vasandani said.
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A look at Latino life through ﬁlm
Movies reﬂect diversity
of Spanish and Portuguese
cultures
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BY
VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFF WRITER
Movie lovers will have more
opportunities to talk directly
with visiting filmmakers this
year at the 23rd AFI Latin American Film Festival opening this
week in Silver Spring.
The festival typically hosts
talks by two or three people, but
this year there will be six.
“This year we have a bumper crop — compared to other
years, it’s a high number,” said
Josh Gardner, associate director
of programming at AFI Silver.
The three-week run of 45
movies opens at the AFI Silver
Theatre and Cultural Center on
Thursday and closes on Oct. 9.
Screening will be ﬁlms and
several documentaries from
17 countries in the Caribbean,
Central and South America, as
well as Spain, Portugal and the
United States.
“We’re trying to show the
diversity of cultures and how
that’s reﬂected in the diversity of
ﬁlm,” said Todd Hitchcock, AFI
programming director.
Opening night features
back-to-back films by young
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n Tickets: $150 festival pass;
$12 individual ticket ($10 each
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Q&A’S WITH
FILMMAKERS
n Sept. 20, 9:15 p.m.: “The
Snitch Cartel” from Colombia
with executive producer
Francisco Cardona.
Argentine director Matias Piñeiro. Inspired by the romances
in “Twelfth Night,” he sets his
film “Viola” in contemporary
Buenos Aires. The movie, about
an all-female cast performing
“Twelfth Night,” shifts back and
forth between rehearsals and
their real lives. His second ﬁlm,
“Rosalinda,” is about actors rehearsing Shakespeare’s “As You
Like It,” a comedy about mistaken identiﬁes, which Piñeiro
sets on the island of Tigre in the
Paraná River delta north of Buenos Aires.
n Sept. 21, 7 p.m.: “Sugar
Kisses” from Mexico with
ﬁlmmaker Carlos Cuarón,
with post-screening reception
sponsored by the Mexican
Cultural Institute.
n Sept. 22, 3:10 p.m.: “Harvest
of Empire: The Untold Story of
Latinos in America” from the
United States with co-producer
Jacqueline “Wendy” ThompsonMarquez.
n Sept. 28, 3 p.m.: “Once Upon
a Time in Bolivia” from Bolivia
with ﬁlmmaker Patrick Cordova
and producer Nahuel Attar.
n Oct. 2, 7:30 p.m.: “Pánico:
The Band That Met the
Sound Beneath” from Chile
with ﬁlmmaker James June
Schneider.
n Oct. 4, 7 p.m.: “The Dead Man
and Being Happy” from Spain
with ﬁlmmaker Javier Rebollo,
with post-screening reception
sponsored by the Embassy of
Spain.
Also from Argentina is “Thesis on a Homicide,” a murder
mystery starring internationally known actor Ricardo Darin,
and “The German Doctor” by
ﬁlmmaker Lucia Puenzo, who
adapted her novel about Nazi
criminal Josef Mengele to the
screen.
“She took the facts as understood and created a work of
ﬁction based on that,” Gardner
said of Puenzo.
Screening during the last
weekend of the festival is “Sugar
Kisses” from Mexico, a story
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about ﬁrst love for two young
teenagers in Mexico City. Director Carlos Cuarón will answer
questions after the screening.
(Cuarón co-wrote “Y Tu Mamá
También” with his brother Alfonso Cuarón, who directed
“Gravity,” an upcoming 3-D
movie about stranded astronauts starring Sandra Bullock
and George Clooney.)
There will also be a free, onetime-only screening on Sunday,
Sept. 22, of the 90-minute documentary “Harvest of Empire:
The Untold Story of Latinos in
America.”
The 90-minute ﬁlm was coproduced by Wendy Thompson-Marquez, a native of Peru
who lives in northern Virginia
and will attend a Q&A session
after the screening.
The documentary, which
screened at the Majestic Theater in Silver Spring in March, is
based on the book of the same
name by “New York Daily News”
columnist Juan Gonzaléz.
Gonzalez put forth the
premise that recent Latino
emigration to the United States
was set in motion by disruptive
American involvement in Central and South American politics.
“People often overlook that
a huge part of it is because of political unrest and civil wars that
have a lot to do with our foreign
policy,” said Thompson-Marquez, who started work on the
ﬁlm during the immigration debates raging during the George
W. Bush administration.
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come, what drives them to leave
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their homelands, their families,”
she said.
Also screening during the
festival are movies about music,
including “Pánico: The Band
that Met the Sound Beneath,”
from Chile, co-directed by
James June Schneider, who will
visit for a Q&A session after the
screening.
Panico, a Chilean alternative
rock and post-punk band based
in Paris, visits the Atacama desert plateau in northern Chile to
make a record, where they experience unique sounds — and an
earthquake.
Another music ﬁlm is “Viramundo,” a documentary featuring internationally known
Brazilian guitarist and songwriter Gilberto Gil, who toured
the Southern Hemisphere after
serving as Brazil’s first black
minister of culture from 2003
through 2008.
The ﬁlm follows him to the
Amazon River basin in Brazil to
the Outback in Australia and the
townships of South Africa.
“He meets with the indigenous populations, and has a jam
session with everyone he meets
with,” Gardner said. “He wanted
to make connections where he
could and highlight cultural diversity.”
The festival is also featuring
several animated ﬁlms, representing a “trend in ﬂower,” said
Gardner.
“It’s deﬁnitely a generational
thing,” he said. “Individual ﬁlmmaking is being made possible
because of better, more readily available, digital ﬁlmmaking
equipment.”
“Rio 2096: A Story of Love
and Fury” is about an immortal warrior and his paramour as
they are repeatedly persecuted,
reincarnated and reunited during 600 years of Brazilian history.
Also showing is “Anina”
from Uruguay by cartoonist and
illustrator Alfredo Soderguit,
who illustrated the 2003 children’s book of the same name
by Sergio López Suárez.
The animated ﬁlm is about a
little girl named Anina Yatay Salas who is teased by classmates
in elementary school because
her three names are palindromes (spelled the same way
backwards as forwards).
She gets into a fight with
a classmate and her principal
suspends her from school. In
voice over style, she talks about
her feelings and her life with
parents, meals, homework and
neighbors.
“It’s definitely family
friendly,” said Gardner.
Also from the U.S. is “Bless
Me, Ultima” an American
movie adapted from U.S. writer
Rudolfo Anaya’s 1972 Chicano
novel of the same name.
The story is about Antonio,
a young boy growing up in New
Mexico in the 1940s, who becomes friends with Ultima, a village elder rumored to be a witch
but who introduces him to the
spiritual side of life.
“It had a limited commercial release,” Gardner said.
“It’s already been shown in Los
Angeles, southwest Texas and
Florida.”
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 s
Page A-19
Trawick ﬁnalists make a great showing
One of the highlights of the
fall art scene continues to be the
exhibit of ﬁnalists for the Trawick Prize for Contemporary
Art. Now in its eleventh year,
the current exhibit at Gallery B
in Bethesda features a group of
eight artists working in different media. With an emphasis on
conceptual but object-focused
work, this year’s exhibit is remarkable for its variety and high
quality.
ON VIEW
BY CLAUDIA ROUSSEAU
Yet, the jurors’ selection of
prize winners from among this
group of both established and
emerging artists was more than
a bit surprising. The top prize
was given to Gary Kachadourian, whose work is represented
in the exhibit by an installation
speciﬁcally made for the space.
Kachadourian’s untitled piece
reﬂects his current practice of
taking photographs of objects,
storefronts and surfaces like an
asphalt street. He then makes
detailed drawings of these in
pen or pencil that are scanned
and patched together digitally.
The work is ﬁnally printed, as
in the Gallery B installation, according to one of a prescribed
number of scales relative to the
size of the original place photographed. Kachadourian also
prints these in book or multiple
smaller scales which he offers at
very low prices — twice the cost
of printing them — to encourage
sales to the average consumer.
Although the process is of inter-
est, the results are rather bland,
and, compared to the process
of another ﬁnalist, Selin Balci,
pretty tame.
Balci gives living microbes
a place to grow and organize
themselves on specially prepared plates. The microorganisms, which normally are
invisible to the naked eye, are
made visible in these conditions. They create maps of “territories” as they battle for the
food sources, and their behavior
is disturbingly parallel to many
scenarios of human conflict.
The artist organizes and assembles the landscapes or maps that
result from these natural migrations into abstract compositions
that are limited in tonal variation but elegant in form.
Another ﬁnalist who did not
receive a prize, but whose work
is compellingly strong, is Kate
Kretz.
Kretz is represented in the
exhibit with some very subtle
but gently provocative works.
However, her overall artistic
practice and her iconography
are both richer and more extensive than might be implied from
this selection. A ﬁne painter and
draftsman, Kretz’s canvasses are
drenched with color and full of
symbolically referential material.
The artist also works with embroidery, and, as in three works
on display here, uses human hair
instead of thread. The themes
she expresses with this technique
are largely personal and autobiographic, but they resonate with
the lives of women everywhere.
Set in elegant Victorian frames
like relics or memorabilia, they
touch on issues like motherhood
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“It’s basically the opposite of competitive step-dancing but the music and
the rhythms are very similar,” Butler
said.
Now living in New York, Butler grew
up an Air Force brat. She was born in
Cambridgeshire, England, and moved
to the U. S. when she was 4. After seeing “Riverdance,” Butler said she “fell in
love” with Irish step-dance.
“I knew that’s what I wanted to do,”
she said.
Other than her “very Irish” first
name and a love for Irish step-dance,
Butler said she wasn’t in tune with her
family’s Irish heritage.
“I didn’t really know that I was Irish
FROM GALLERY B
To make his whimsical construction “SuperTuff” Adam Hager combined an old mufﬂer, a xylophone, typewriter keys
attached to little wooden mallets to “play” it with, and a coded musical score.
SNYDERMAN WORKS GALLERY
“Deluge II” is one of Kate Kretz’s
found pieces of old silverware on
which she paints tiny scenes of
natural disasters on tarnished silverpoint. Instead of soup, this ladle
offers a memory of a ﬂooded town.
and the restrictions that women
still face in all aspects of life, from
marriage to societal expectations. Perhaps to connote storms
of emotion beneath the surface,
or how real storms affect the history of families, Kretz uses found
silverware on which she has
painted, in tarnished silverpoint,
tiny scenes of disastrous weather
growing up,” Butler said. “ ... It was kind
of bizarre.”
Butler took Irish step-dance until
she was 18. It was around that time that
she moved to Boston to work under
distinguished performer, teacher and
choreographer of Irish dance Kiernan
Jordan. In 2010, during her apprenticeship with Jordan and on scholarship at
her studio, Butler began to learn the
sean-nós style.
“It was deﬁnitely bizarre for me,”
Butler said. “It took me ... a couple
months to get used to bending my
knees and using my heels. It just took
practice, really. It was deﬁnitely awkward at ﬁrst.”
DeMarco has been performing and
teaching Irish ﬁddle music for more
than 30 years. He cites sligo players of
the previous generation such as Mi-
events like tornados and ﬂoods.
Clearly open to interpretation,
the sense that an old silver ladle
(“Deluge II”) carries a history
inside it is beautifully and eloquently communicated.
The second-place winner
was Adam Hager, a young conceptual artist working with mechanical parts from odd places
brought together in unexpected
combinations. His work is attractive and even amusing. For
example, “Super Tuff” is made
of a car mufﬂer into which a
xylophone has been installed
that can be “played” by the
viewer with old typewriter keys
attached on the front. Hager’s
work is mostly fun. It provokes
interest in things counterpoised
to other things with which they
had no apparent history. But
his interest in the “strangeness
of objects as they relate to function and non-function” led him
to take a slice of a large old tree
and interlace it with a large cir-
chael Coleman and James Morrison as
his inﬂuences.
“There’s a strong legacy of that
style,” DeMarco said. “It’s very improvisational, very much dance music ... A
lot of the sligo stuff is very lively, happy
... it plays a little brisker, a little bit faster
than some of the other styles.”
DeMarco and Butler met two years
ago in Boston right before Butler made
the move to New York.
“I was always a big fan of his music,” Butler said. “[Tony] being [Tony],
he’ll jokingly say I was stalking him.”
As the two continued to run into
each other, they began collaborating.
“He had always loved the idea of
collaborating with a dancer,” Butler said. “We really feed off of each
other.”
Butler and DeMarco have been per-
cular saw blade (“Wise”). Only
darkly humorous, the work is
impressive in both its form and
its disturbing message.
The third-place winner was
Mariah Anne Johnson, another
conceptual artist working with
fabric, but in a rather unusual
way. Growing up in Little Rock,
Ark., in what sounds like a chaotic family, Johnson was struck
from the time she was a little
girl by her mother’s obsession
about the linen stored in a special closet devoted to sheets
and pillowcases. She probably
ironed them, and then laid them
carefully in nice flat bundles.
This memory has stayed with
the artist, and her work employs
these same folded bed linens, in
all their usual colors, but in new
and often dramatically baroque
arrangements. In the exhibit, a
small corner is occupied by the
ﬂatly folded cotton pieces, one
hanging from the ceiling, the
others bent around the bottom.
TIMMY WHEELAN
Tony DeMarco has been performing and
teaching Irish ﬁddle music for more than 30
years.
forming as a duo for a year now, pairing
his tunes with her footwork. The two
GOODNIGHT
FRANTI
Roberta Gasbarre is the educational theater
guru and director of “Goodnight Moon,” opening the 2013-2014 season at Adventure Theatre
MTC on Friday. The musical is based on the beloved book by Margaret Wise Brown and adapted
for the stage by Chad Henry. Hartline will play
the role of the old lady whispering “hush,” or the
grandmother in Gasbarre’s version.
Gasbarre has more than 35 years of experience in educational theater, including 13 years as
the director of Discovery Theater, the Smithsonian’s Theatre for Young Audiences. She returns
to Adventure Theatre MTC after directing “The
Red Balloon,” based on another children’s classic, in 2010.
“‘Goodnight Moon’ is packed with possibility,” Gasbarre said. “The book ‘Goodnight Moon’
[is a] place you can live and with ideas you can
play ... dances you can dance and ultimately a
place you can close your eyes and dream about.”
For those wondering how the beloved rhyming bedtime story could possibly translate into a
45-minute stage production, you’re not alone.
“I kind of thought, how would they ever do
that?” Hartline said.
“I was surprised that they were able to make
a big exciting musical based on a book about
putting kids to bed,” added Maya Brettell.
Brettell plays several characters in “Goodnight Moon,” though her main role is the mischievous mouse who keeps the little bunny (Jake
Foster) awake.
Brettell and Foster, both 15, are two of the
youngest members of a cast consisting of teens,
adults and puppets.
“I personally have been involved with puppets for many, many years,” Gasbarre said. “For
me, they’re [a child’s] expression and allow them
to become other people.”
While Gasbarre describes “Goodnight
Moon,” the book as “ ... a lullaby in verse ...” she
said “Goodnight Moon” the show isn’t exactly a
bedtime story.
“This show of magic and fun is really the true
story behind ‘Goodnight Moon,’” Gasbarre said.
“We know that children don’t eat their dinner
and then start yawning and close their eyes and
go to sleep. There are lots of other things people
do before they go to sleep.”
Brettell added that in addition to typical bedtime routines, the musical also explores some
recognizable markers of childhood.
“Songs stem from things that we all experience as kids,” she said. “Losing teeth or being
amused by the moon ... fairy tales ... things like
the ‘Three Little Bears’ are represented in the
show.”
Ultimately, Gasbarre said she hopes “Good-
A&E: You had a pretty serious
health scare around that time the
song was released, right?
Franti: Right when the song
came out, my appendix ruptured on tour and I came very
close to dying. So it just put
everything in perspective, like,
wow you have a big hit but you
could be dead the next day...
also often feature guest musicians as a
part of their performance.
“It’s kind of the ﬁrst time anyone’s
done [this] with a sean-nós dancer,”
Butler said. “It’s more common with
tap.”
“It hasn’t been done a whole lot,”
DeMarco added. “There hasn’t been a
lot of stuff choreographed with this music and the sean-nós dancing.”
DeMarco and Butler hope to be part
of a movement to bring the style of song
and dance to the U.S.
“It hasn’t caught on real big but it
is [starting] now,” DeMarco said. “It’s
a special thing that’s kind of coming to
light in this country.” He added with a
laugh: “After our concert, everyone will
be doing it.
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BRUCE DOUGLAS.
Colin Cech as Bunny in the Adventure Theatre production of “Goodnight Moon.”
GOODNIGHT MOON
n When: Sept. 20 to Oct. 27, see website for
speciﬁc dates and times
n Where: Adventure Theatre MTC 7300
MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo
n Tickets: $19
n For information: 301-634-2270,
adventuretheatre-mtc.org
night Moon” the musical is an homage to a book
that is treasured by countless generations; from
Foster, who said a copy of the story was the ﬁrst
gift he ever received, and Brettell, who recalls her
parents reading it to her, to a whole new generation of children like Hartline’s son experiencing
the story for the ﬁrst time.
“For the people who really know and love the
book, it will be an exploration of the possibilities
between the pages,” Gasbarre said.
And for those experiencing the “lullaby in
verse” for the very ﬁrst time, the director said the
musical serves as a “delightful doorway.”
“They can go home to their rooms and look
at their stuff and make their connections to
‘Goodnight Moon,’” Gasbarre said. “Goodnight
my teddy bear, goodnight my lamp, goodnight
my moon outside my window.”
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A&E: What was the inspiration
for the latest album, “All People?”
Franti: The songs are all about
asking yourself, “If I only have x
amount of days on this planet,
how do I want to spend them
and who do I want to spend them
with? What’s the mark I want to
leave here, on this life, my friends,
my family, the planet?” It’s also a
celebration of diversity. The diversity we see in this country and
around the planet and the title
track “All People” is really a statement. No matter if they’re black,
white, gay, straight, rich or poor,
all of us are signiﬁcant. All of us
matter. And that’s really what the
record is about. And then stylistically, we really wanted to combine songs that I’ve written on
the acoustic guitar with electronic
song and dance music.
A&E: How would you answer
that question? How would you
spend your days knowing you
only had x amount left on the
planet?
Franti: First thing, I have an
amazing partner in my life, Sara,
who is really incredible. I have
two great sons who I love dearly
and the three of them are really
the most important people in
my life. But I also want to make
a difference in the world. I want
to be somebody who promotes
positivity and I really believe
that the positivity in me will ﬁnd
solutions for problems that we
face in life and in our world.
A&E: You’re known for your
social and political activism. What
are some of the issues that have
your attention at the moment?
Otherwise notable in the
exhibit is the work of Travis
Childers, a young artist who
grew up in rural Tennessee.
The artist says that he “enjoys
the challenge of transforming
commonplace things into a
new object, keeping in mind the
original purpose of the material
when giving it a new meaning.”
There’s a strong environmental message in these pieces.
Consider his “Grind.” An oldfashioned school pencil sharpener, the kind we all used as
kids, is mounted on a wooden
shelf. An ordinary yellow pencil
is stuffed into it. Perhaps to remind us that when we grind that
pencil we are also grinding the
trees the wood in them is from,
the pencil bears tiny little trees
made of model train landscape
material. The effect is subtle but
psychologically challenging.
How many, we might wonder,
would like to turn the crank and
see what happens to the trees?
LAUREN DUKOFF
Michael Franti & Spearhead released
their latest album, “All People” in July.
Franti: Obviously right now
in the news it’s the issue with
Syria. Should we attack Syria for
using chemical weapons? I wrote
a song years ago called “Bomb
the World,” and you know, we
can bomb the world to pieces
but we can’t bomb it into peace.
Today is Sept. 11. We felt what it
was like to be bombed and any
time we do that anywhere else
in the world, people are going
to feel the same thing. Before we
consider dropping one bomb
that’s going to kill even one civilian, we should make sure that
every form of diplomacy has
been enacted. So that’s what I’m
hopeful for in this situation.
A&E: You’re also giving back
through the foundation you
recently started, “Do it For the
Love Foundation.” What can
you tell us about the mission of
the organization?
Franti: We started the foundation to bring people with advanced stages of life-threatening
illnesses and kids with severe
disabilities and wounded veterans to live concerts. Any fan can
contact us and say, some band is
coming to my town who I want
to see and we’re kind of like the
Make-A-Wish Foundation for
music. We like making it possible to get to shows for free.
A&E: What inspired you to
start the foundation?
Franti: Sara is an emergency
room nurse so we’re always trying
to think of ways to combine what
she does in health care with what I
do in music. Throughout my years
of touring, I’ve had lots of people
say, you know, “I have cancer, I
have Lou Gehrig’s disease, I have
something where I’m close to dying and I want to come to your
show.” We would always invite
them and bring them backstage
and ﬁnd a special place for them
to watch the show from. Fans who
did that were always really moved.
They’d say, “Concerts are my favorite thing and it made a beautiful memory for myself and my
family.” Sara and I met a couple,
Hope and Steve. Steve has Lou
Gehrig’s disease. A lot of times you
see somebody who’s in a wheelchair or who’s paralyzed and you
think to yourself, “Oh, that poor
person.”ButhavingmetSteveand
Hope, I don’t think that anymore.
Now when I see someone I think
to myself, “I wonder what their
nameis.I’dliketotalktothemand
ﬁnd out about their life.”
A&E: You haven’t worn shoes
for the last 13 years. When and
why did you make that decision?
Franti: It started 13 years ago
on my birthday, April 21. I had
been traveling to a lot of countries where kids couldn’t afford to
wear shoes so I came home and
I was like, “I wonder if I could go
just three days barefoot, just to
see what it’s like.” So I decided
to go barefoot for three days and
then three days turned into three
weeks and a month and a year.
A&E: And it’s actually led
you to a partnership with another charity, right?
Franti: After ten years, I started
partnering with “Soles4Souls.”
They bring shoes to people who
can’taffordthemorwholostthem
in some natural disaster. They
started after Hurricane Katrina
bringing shoes down to New Orleans and from there they went to
Haiti and now they’re in dozens of
countries around the world. They
collect shoes and bring them ... we
have shoe collections at our shows
and we’re working with them to
get the word out about the work
they do.”
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Rockville resident Steve Bobadilla (left) served as an honorary guest of the
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Kennedy High graduate gets pointers
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BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFF WRITER
R
ockville resident
Steve Bobadilla’s
23rd birthday on
Sept. 4 was bound
to be a good one.
Earlier in the summer he had won three tickets
to the US Open while competing in a US Tennis Association
Mid-Atlantic Section wheelchair
tennis tournament and on that
Wednesday was Flushing (N.Y.)bound with his mother, Luz, and
father, Victor, for quarterﬁnal
day at the ﬁnal grand slam of the
professional tennis season.
It turned out to be an even
more memorable day than Bobadilla could’ve imagined, he
said. The US Open Wheelchair
Tennis Competition public
draw ceremony held on-site at
the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center was being
held Sept. 4. Bobadilla served as
an honorary guest — he pulled
out the chips that determined
the competition’s random draw.
Bobadilla’s birthday got
even better when his wish to
hit the courts with some of his
wheelchair tennis idols, including Paralympic gold medalists
David Wagner and Nick Taylor,
was granted.
“I didn’t know that was going to happen, they surprised
me with that and it was a once
in a lifetime experience, something I will never forget,” Bobadilla said. “I was nervous [to play
with the pros], I was like, ‘Am I
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Winston Churchill High School’s Katie Gauch could beneﬁt from a new USTA initiative.
going to choke, or am I going to
do OK?’ I did pretty good, the
top players were giving me some
tips. It was very memorable.”
Bobadilla was born with
Spina Bifida, which literally
translates to “split spine,” according to the Spina Biﬁda Association website. Levels of
severity differ among individuals with the disease, which is
the most common permanently
disabling birth defect in the
United States, and Bobadilla’s
case is fairly limiting — he has
been wheelchair-bound since
birth. Doctors warned his parents of the lifelong struggles
their son would face, Victor said,
and gave the younger Bobadilla
little chance of leading any semblance of a normal life. Traveling the country to compete in
wheelchair tennis tournaments
seemed completely out of the
question.
Steve played wheelchair soccer, basketball and baseball as a
child — Victor credited Luz with
her commitment to keeping
their son involved in activities.
But it wasn’t until he was about
14 that he realized playing tennis with his dad could also be a
reality.
“I started watching all the
able-body people played and
started to enjoy it and one day
I just said, ‘Alright, let me try
this,’” Steve said. “I ﬁgured I had
the ability to do all the things
that are required to play wheelchair tennis.”
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Changingthelandscape?
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BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFF WRITER
At the start of each fall and spring
season many high school girls’ and boys’
tennis coaches of Montgomery County’s
top-ranked teams have to wonder if their
school’s best player will opt to participate
in scholastic competition.
College coaches look almost exclusively
at U.S. Tennis Association rankings during
the recruitment process, county coaches
agreed, and players who choose to completely sit out or ease up on tournament
play during the two- to three-month sea-
NATIONAL TENNIS BODY CONSIDERS GIVING
POINTS FOR HIGH SCHOOL MATCHES
son risk a drop in USTA ranking, Winston
Churchill High School junior singles player
Katie Gauch said. Therefore it has become
more common for players in search of an
athletic scholarship to sit out one or more
high school seasons.
A new USTA initiative still in its early
planning stages could change that pattern
and the landscape of county tennis overall.
According to Bonnie Vona, the USTA
Mid-Atlantic Section Manager of Competitive Tennis, there is a movement toward
ultimately awarding USTA ranking points
for high school matches.
“Let’s recognize those matches and
give [players] some participation and ranking points,” Vona said. “That will encourage players already ranked in the USTA
Mid-Atlantic Section more encouragement
to participate in high school.”
The point scale has not yet been determined, but it’s not likely the points will
weigh as much as those acquired at the
top national tournaments. But the ability
to somewhat stabilize their ranking might
help some players feel more comfortable
participating in high school tennis, Gauch
said.
See TENNIS, Page B-2
Good Counsel’s last defense
Girls’ soccer: Goalkeeper
leads the Falcons’ defense
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BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFF WRITER
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Our Lady of Good Counsel High School
goalie Megan Hinz holds the ball during
practice on Aug. 15.
Ten minutes separated the Our Lady of
Good Counsel High School girls’ soccer team
from its eighth Washington Catholic Athletic
Conference title last fall when longtime rival
Bishop O’Connell (Va.) was awarded a penalty kick. The Falcons held a 1-0 lead in the
70th minute of the championship game, a
pretty dicey time to give up what more often
than not would end up being a free point.
The thought of letting the ball by her in
any capacity didn’t even cross current Good
Counsel senior goalkeeper Megan “Stu”
Hinz’s mind for a second, she said. Protected
by perhaps the Washington Metropolitan
area’s stingiest backlines each of the past two
seasons, this was one of few chances Hinz
would have to back up longtime Falcons
coach Jim Bruno’s proclamation that she
See DEFENSE, Page B-2
Quince Orchard receiver plays older than he is
n
Brown, a 16-year-old senior, leads Cougars
against Damascus this week
BY
DAN FELDMAN
IF YOU GO
Quince Orchard vs.
Damascus
STAFF WRITER
n When: 6:30 p.m. Friday
Malcolm Brown arrived at Quince Orchard High
School, where his two older brothers had played football, for his ﬁrst practice and received quite the welcome from coach Dave Mencarini.
“The ﬁrst thing Mencarini said to him, Mencarini says, ‘Hey, you’re the best-looking one out of all
three of them,’” said Richard Montgomery coach Josh
Klotz, who served as Quince Orchard’s offensive coor-
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2-0 and have dominated their
opponents so far this year.
The Gazette ranks them No. 2
and 4 in Montgomery County.
dinator the previous four years.
“And then he said, ‘The younger they get, the
more athletic they get,’” Brown said.
Within or outside of his own family, Brown is
proving that axiom.
Brown, a senior, is just 16.
He’ll be 16 when Quince Orchard plays at Damascus at 6:30 p.m. Friday. He’ll be 16 when Quince Orchard concludes its season, even if that’s in its third
straight 4A state-title game. He’ll even be 16 when
he’s eligible to sign with one of the NCAA Division IFootball Bowl Subdivision teams recruiting him.
Brown won’t turn 17 until Feb. 18 because he
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Quince Orchard High School’s Malcolm Brown (right) looks to break
a tackle on Friday after catching a pass against host Walt Whitman Thursday in Bethesda.
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TENNIS
PROS
Thomas S. Wootton and Walt Whitman coaches Nia Cresham and Jasen
Gohn, respectively, agreed.
“I think it would help [kids choose
to play for high school],” Cresham said.
“There are of course certain big, big national tournaments where it’s important
for them to go. But they might not feel
compelled to go to all the ones they normally would. And if they could use the
county tournament, regionals and state
toward their ranking, that takes a lot of
pressure off.”
On the other end of the spectrum,
there are some county coaches who arrive for the ﬁrst day of tryouts wondering
if anyone who shows up has ever played
an actual competitive tennis match
before. That might be the high school
initiative’s main focus. The movement
is coming from the top, USTA national
headquarters in White Plains (N.Y.),
and the overall main intent, USTA Chief
Executive of Community Tennis Kurt
Kamperman said, is USTA’s outreach to
engage high school players, in general,
nationwide. The fear, he added, is that
the USTA junior tournament circuit has
become elitist, but that tennis players of
all levels, with different goals and futures
in the sport, can ﬁnd something beneﬁcial in tournament play.
There are approximately 300,000
high school tennis players in this country
that the USTA has not really tapped into,
Vona said. An outreach program would
make it easy to be part of the family, she
added.
This movement could be extremely
beneﬁcial for the No. 2 doubles player
who dismisses himself as a possible
USTA tournament candidate, thinking
that’s just for the top one or two players
on his team. It could be a gateway for
players on one of the county’s smaller
or weaker teams that just haven’t been
exposed to that world — getting involved
can take effort and be complicated, Cresham said. This, in turn, could eventually
result in a more competitive high school
season countywide. Gohn said a little
taste of success, a few ranking points
from a high school match or tournament, could go a long way in a tennis
player’s drive.
Kamperman said he hopes to have
the start of something in place by the
spring high school season. Ideas ﬂoating around include tournaments that do
It was harder than he imagined, Bobadilla said. In wheelchair tennis, athletes must
master the game and the wheelchair, according to the USTA
website. It takes incredible upper body strength and cardiovascular ability, Bobadilla said.
Out of physical condition at the
time, getting better at tennis and
the opportunity to compete in
tournaments provided him with
the motivation to train.
Soon thereafter he linked
up with Prince George’s Tennis and Education Foundation
instructor Brenda Gilmore, a
nationally-ranked wheelchair
tennis player in her own right
who promotes the sport, especially among youngsters. Gilmore took Bobadilla under her
wing and the sport has changed
his life, he said, building his selfconﬁdence to new heights. This
year for the ﬁrst time in his life
Steve moved away from home
and is living on his own — he is
studying graphic design at the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Victor agreed that
his son is a new person, living independently and more sociable
than ever before.
People with disabilities are
often told what they can’t do,
Steve said. He is thankful he
found his outlet and now joins
Gilmore in demonstrations
several times a year at various
schools and businesses to expose the public to wheelchair
tennis and the opportunities
that many wheelchair-bound
people might now know exist.
Bobadilla said he hopes
to compete at the US Open
Wheelchair Competition one
day. Maybe one day he will be a
professional wheelchair tennis
player granting an aspiring athlete’s birthday wish.
“I just want to tell people to
never give up and never think
the doors are closed,” Bobadilla
said. “There are so many opportunities out there.”
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DEFENSE
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is Montgomery County’s best goalie,
possibly the best keeper to ever come
through the Falcons’ program.
Hinz, of course, made the save, she
tends to thrive in those pressure situations, Bruno said. And recent Good
Counsel graduate Midge Purce scored
on the ensuing punt to clinch the 2-0
victory.
“That was a spotlight situation and
I think Stu has stepped up in several of
those situations,” Bruno said. “A goalkeeper always looks great if she saves a
penalty kick, but a penalty kick under
those circumstances, that’s about as
big as I’ve seen. Immediately after she
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completed kindergarten and
first grade in a single school
year, making him younger than
his classmates ever since.
“I’ve never used that as an
excuse, and I never plan to,”
Brown said. “... I like it. I like taking it as a challenge.”
Despite being so young for
his grade, Brown, a wide re-
C L E R G Y
not require USTA membership as well as
team tournaments that are USTA sanctioned.
Points are not currently being
awarded to high school players, but
Vona said she is trying to encourage area
coaches to use the tournament data
management software that gets players’
sent the punt that Midge scores off of,
that’s maybe the biggest turnaround in
a game that I’ve seen.”
Hinz is likely to be tested more often this fall after graduation casualties
and illness have left Good Counsel’s
defense in a bit of a transitional period
— she has already had to come up with
11 saves in four games. But if anyone is
going to get a backline in order, Bruno
said, it’s Hinz.
The University of Michigan recruit
has all the physical attributes of a fantastic goalie: quick reaction time, agility
and range, among them. But where she
soars above the rest, Bruno said, is her
ability to organize the defense in front
of her and stay in tune with the 10 players on the ﬁeld ahead of her.
“I’m not sure I’ve had a more de-
ceiver and defensive back, has
emerged as one of Montgomery County’s most physically
impressive players. He claims
offers from East Carolina University, University of Delaware,
Towson University, Old Dominion University, Monmouth
University, Appalachian State
University and Eastern Michigan University, and Villanova
University and Syracuse University are also recruiting him, but
have not offered scholarships.
A P P R E C I A T I O N
Honor
Your
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Winston Churchill High School’s Katie Gauch could beneﬁt from a new USTA initiative.
names and results online to at least start
giving them more exposure in the hopes
that it will catch on.
“I think a lot of high school players
don’t realize how many opportunities
are out there, even at some of the colleges,” Vona said. “There are a lot of opportunities past the high school years
manding goalkeeper, Stu is very exacting in what she wants,” Bruno said. “I
think she’s really someone that’s going
to help solidify this defense just by her
presence and direction. Some goalkeepers talk to talk because they’re told
to talk but they have nothing to say.
This kid has deﬁnitive things to say as
the game progresses and the girls pay
attention.”
Having someone of Hinz’s caliber defending the net also gives players in the midﬁeld and offensive third
the conﬁdence to push and take risks,
sophomore forward Nia Dorsey said.
Playing goalkeeper can be a thankless job. Goal scorers typically get more
attention than those defending against
them. But Hinz doesn’t ﬁsh for compliments and accolades. In fact, she went
Prior to high school, he
chose Quince Orchard over Our
Lady of Good Counsel, but he
had to bide his time before seeing the ﬁeld regularly.
Brown describes becoming
a starting safety at the beginning
of the postseason his sophomore year, working hard all regular season to prove he deserved
a chance. But when Brown became an offensive starter during his junior year, his coaches
didn’t have the luxury of going
to stay involved in tennis and we want
to work to enhance that experience for
them and let them recognize the opportunities that are out there. For players
who are already tournament players, this
should help stabilize their ranking.”
through nearly the entire 2012 season
without surrendering a single goal and
didn’t even want to take credit.
“Everyone always says, ‘Let’s get a
shutout for the goalkeeper,’ but I don’t
need credit,” Hinz said. “It’s everyone
as a whole. It’s cool, but I’d rather the
team succeed as a whole. I love when
we get a shutout, but it’s not just me,
it’s the whole team. You have to get
through 11 players to score.”
Defending the net can take it’s toll
on a person’s body and Hinz has had
to come back from some pretty serious
injuries. She missed most of her freshman season with microfractures in her
back — she spent three months in a restrictive brace — and recently strained
her back (not the same injury) over the
summer. But each time she’s seemed
another direction.
Quarterback Mike Murtaugh
was injured early last season,
and wide receiver Matt Choi
moved behind center. At that
point, Brown replaced Choi as a
starting outside receiver.
“He became our most
trusted receiver,” Klotz said.
“... He brought that defensive
physicality that he has to the offensive side of the ball. There’s
not too many teams that can
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to come back stronger. Probably because of her tremendous work rate,
Bruno said. Hinz is on the ﬁeld doing
individual workouts before Bruno gets
to practice each day, he said, and her
drive is something that rubs off on her
teammates.
“Her training regime is unbelievable, which pushes all the other girls
too,” Bruno said. “They’ve got no
choice. ... Let’s face it, you can say ‘Oh,
no wonder [Hinz] got all these shutouts
[in 2012], she had all these people in
front of her.’ But she has a lot to do with
that. I think she’s more than just the
technically sound and tactically sound
goalkeeper. It’s also the way she talks
and directs that is a big strength.”
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receiver. He brings that same aggressive style to offense. Again, I
keep coming back how he attacks the ball in the air. Playing
safety attacking the ball in the
air, he does the same thing on
the offensive side of the ball.
That ball is in the air, he’s going
to go after it.”
This season, Brown leads
Quince Orchard in receiving
yards (135) and receiving touchdowns (three) and is tied for the
top spot in receptions (seven).
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He has also demonstrated
Mencarini was right to praise him.
This summer, Quince Orchard and Richard Montgomery
attended a team camp together
at Shepherd University.
“Every time I saw him, he’s
got a smile on his face, he’s
shaking my hand, introducing
himself to the other coaches on
my staff,” Klotz said. “Everybody
likes him.”
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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
HOW THEY RANK
The 10 best football teams in Montgomery
County this week as ranked by The Gazette’s
sports staff.
Rank
School
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Good Counsel
Falcons
Quince Orchard
Cougars
Seneca Valley
Screaming Eagles
Damascus
Swarmin’ Hornets
Gaithersburg
Trojans
Northwest
Jaguars
Bullis
Bulldogs
Wootton
Patriots
Paint Branch
Panthers
Walt Whitman
Vikings
Record Points
3-1 58
2-0 56
2-0 48
2-0 42
2-0 33
2-0 32
1-1 25
2-0 16
2-0 11
1-1 7
Also receiving votes: Bethesda-Chevy Chase
2 points.
LEADERS
Top rushers
Carries
Perry Stefanelli, G. Counsel 64
Chris Dawson, G. Counsel 57
Dage Davis, Geo. Prep
39
Elijah Spottswood, Sher.
38
Charles Lyles, Poolesville 48
Solomon Vault, G’burg
32
Kevin Joppy, Q. Orchard
25
Zac Morton, Whitman
32
Joshua Gills, Northwest
11
N Amankwah-Ayeh, B-CC 17
Top passers
Sam Ellis, Wootton
Chuck Reese, Rockville
Mike Murtaugh, Q. Orch.
Gaston Cooper, P. Branch
B. Strittmatter, G. Counsel
Nick DeCarlo, G’burg
Evan Smith, Whitman
S. Morningstear, Pooles.
S. Strittmatter, Churchill
Chase Williams, Damas.
Yards
361
341
354
255
347
248
224
164
162
155
Cmp-Att.
42-65
64-97
26-37
27-59
17-37
14-22
20-37
16-26
18-30
11-16
Top receivers
Catches
Trevon Diggs, Wootton
15
Joey Cornwell, Rockville
19
Anthony Albert, Rockville 16
Jibri Woods, Wootton
13
Malcolm Brown, Q. Orchard 7
William Tearney, G’burg
3
Jesse Locke, Churchill
8
Elliott Davis, Q. Orchard
6
Preston Bampoe-addo, QO 7
Louison Biama, Rockville
9
Avg. TDs
5.6 2
6.0 6
9.1 6
6.7 3
7.2 3
7.8 6
9.0 3
5.1 2
14.7 3
9.1 2
Yards
595
530
446
295
265
261
250
233
228
202
Yards
205
172
157
145
135
134
131
125
125
119
Int. TDs
2 5
2 6
0 7
2 1
2 6
0 0
3 1
2 2
3 2
0 4
Avg. TDs
13.7 2
9.1 2
9.8 2
11.2 1
19.3 3
44.7 0
16.4 2
20.8 2
17.9 2
13.2 0
Georgetown Prep junior embraces position change
Davis started season
with six-touchdown game
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BY
DAN FELDMAN
STAFF WRITER
Georgetown Prep School
junior Dage Davis attended a
football camp at Stanford University last summer. Next year,
he plans to return to Stanford’s
camp and also hit camps at
UCLA and Cal.
Ever since visiting Los Angeles and San Francisco for
family reunions and basketball
camps, Davis has fallen for the
Golden State.
“It’s just so much different
from the East Coast,” Davis
said. “I like to experience different things.”
When Georgetown Prep
football coach Dan Paro
switched Davis’ position this
fall, Davis said he wasn’t so
sure he wanted that. Paro
moved Davis from receiver to
running back, and though Davis said he wanted to do whatever was best for the team, he
still couldn’t fully hide his in-
Georgetown Prep, where he
enrolled based on the recommendation of family friend
Markel Starks, who attended
the school before becoming a
starting guard on the Georgetown men’s basketball team.
“I was just running the ball,
trying to out-run everybody,”
Davis said. As a sophomore,
Davis started at cornerback on
varsity. Offensively, he shifted
toward receiver, where his
TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE 5-foot-11, 165-pound frame
Georgetown Prep football running back Dage Davis works out with team- seemed to be a better ﬁt.
Davis hopes to add anmates Monday at the North Bethesda school.
other 15 pounds, and he’s still
“He can make really good learning how to read defenses.
herent reluctance.
“It was kind of surprising athletes miss him,” Paro said. In addition to Stanford, UCLA
to me,” Davis said. “I mean, I “He runs with a purpose, and and Cal, he plans to attend a
know my coach and I trust him, he just keeps going. ... He camp at Northwestern.
so I knew he was doing best, has an innate ability to stop
Davis said no college teams
but I thought of myself as more on the dime and start on the are recruiting him right now,
dime. You know what I mean? but Paro said all of the approxiof a wide receiver.”
So far, Davis has shown the There’s guys who’ve got him in mately 60 college coaches who
their sights, and they’re coming have visited the school have inswitch was the right move.
Davis ran for 242 yards and right down at him, and all of a quired about Davis.
six touchdowns in a season- sudden, he’ll stop, and then
“He’s a good football
opening win over Fork Union he’ll go another direction, and player who can be something
Military Academy (Va.). The he can get back to full speed even a lot better than good,”
next week, he followed with very quickly.”
Paro said.
Davis played running
112 yards in a loss to Bishop
back on the freshman team at
McNamara High School.
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Montgomery County record
All games
Landon at St. Paul’s
Wheaton at Watkins Mill
Einstein at Rockville
Quince Orchard at Damascus
Richard Montgomery at Walter Johnson
Wootton at Churchill
Seneca Valley at Northwest
Blake at Magruder
Gaithersburg at Clarksburg
Springbrook at Sherwood
Paint Branch at Kennedy
McDonogh at Georgetown Prep
South Hagerstown at Poolesville
Spalding at Bullis
Gonzaga at Good Counsel
Bethesda-Chevy Case at Whitman
Northwood at Blair
John Carroll vs. Avalon
Nick
Cammarota
Den
Feldman
Travis
Mewhirter
Ken
Sain
Jennifer
Beekman
Kent
Zakour
30-8
64-17
28-10
64-17
28-10
63-18
29-9
63-18
30-8
62-19
30-8
61-20
St. Paul’s
Watkins Mill
Rockville
Q. Orchard
R. Mont.
Churchill
Seneca
Blake
Gaithersburg
Sherwood
Paint Branch
McDonogh
S. Hagers.
Bullis
Good Counsel
B-CC
Blair
John Carroll
St. Paul’s
Watkins Mill
Einstein
Q. Orchard
R. Mont.
Wootton
Seneca
Blake
Gaithersburg
Sherwood
Paint Branch
McDonogh
S. Hagers.
Bullis
Gonzaga
Whitman
Blair
John Carroll
St. Paul’s
Watkins Mill
Rockville
Q. Orchard
R. Mont.
Churchill
Seneca
Blake
Gaithersburg
Sherwood
Paint Branch
McDonogh
Poolesville
Spalding
Good Counsel
B-CC
Blair
John Carroll
St. Paul’s
Watkins Mill
Einstein
Q. Orchard
R. Mont.
Wootton
Seneca
Blake
Gaithersburg
Springbrook
Paint Branch
McDonogh
S. Hagers.
Bullis
Good Counsel
Whitman
Blair
John Carroll
St. Paul’s
Watkins Mill
Einstein
Q. Orchard
R. Mont.
Wootton
Seneca
Blake
Gaithersburg
Springbrook
Paint Branch
McDonogh
S. Hagers.
Spalding
Good Counsel
Whitman
Blair
John Carroll
St. Paul’s
Watkins Mill
Rockville
Q. Orchard
R. Mont.
Wootton
Seneca
Blake
Gaithersburg
Sherwood
Paint Branch
McDonogh
S. Hagers.
Spalding
Good Counsel
B-CC
Blair
John Carroll
Wootton, Springbrook
improve to 2-0
Of all the words in the voluminous English language that
Bob Milloy opted to use in describing his Our Lady of Good
Counsel High School’s dominant,
21-3 win over Calvert Hall on Friday night, he went with “awful”
without a moment’s hesitation.
“Well we’re happy we won
FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK
BY DAN FELDMAN
but, you know, we played awful,”
the ever-candid Milloy said.
Here are a few things that
were not awful: the running
backs, Perry Stefanelli and Chris
Dawson, who combined for 291
yards on 38 carries, two touchdowns, and untold amounts of
clock; the offensive line, which
opened up holes wide enough
for the duo to skip through, and
keyed the game-sealing, 98-yard
ﬁnal scoring drive in the fourth
quarter; the defense, which
sacked Calvert Hall quarterbacks
Kenji Bahar and Colar Kuhns
eight times for a loss of 50 yards,
picked off a pass that led to a
short ﬁeld and Good Counsel’s
ﬁrst touchdown, and allowed -40
yards of rushing.
To the buzzer: Thomas S.
Wootton coach Tyree Spinner
looked down his sideline toward
a player’s mother photographing the game. “Make sure you get
this,” Spinner said.
Wootton quarterback Sam
Ellis stepped back and fired a
strike Trevon Diggs for a 37-yard
gain a play after the two connected on a 40-yard pass. Though
Diggs fumbled on the 1-yard line,
the long completions in the ﬁnal
two minutes Monday set a tone
during Wootton’s 24-14 victory
against Bethesda-Chevy Chase.
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Thomas S. Wooton High School reciever Trevon Diggs gains yards after the
catch during the second quarter on Monday against Bethesda-Chevy Chase.
“Every down that we play is
preparation for our next game,”
Spinner said. “So, what’s the
point in wasting live reps and taking a knee versus keep going? At
the end of the day, we have tied
record at the end of the year, you
go to point differentiation.”
Spinner is clearly taking no
chances with his team in solid
contention for its first playoff
berth in ﬁve years and just its second in 22 years, invoking the third
tiebreaker.
Fun run: Kevin Joppy juked.
He lowered his shoulder and
brushed off contact. Then he
juked some more.
The Quince Orchard running
back ﬁnished the carry with his
second touchdown, yet another
dazzling run on a night he had a
few, and returned to the sideline.
“That’s why we recruited you,
baby!” Quince Orchard football
coach Dave Mencarini said.
That’s their way of poking fun
at the rumors Mencarini enticed
Joppy, who played for Seneca
Valley High School his ﬁrst three
seasons, to switch schools. In reality, Joppy just moved into the
Quince Orchard zone over the
Team
Wootton
Whitman
B-Chevy Chase
Churchill
Kennedy
Walter Johnson
All Div.
2-0
1-1
1-1
1-1
0-2
0-2
PF PA
2-0
0-0
1-1
1-1
0-0
0-2
65
28
39
36
6
6
Montgomery 4A East Division
Team
Paint Branch
Sherwood
Blair
Springbrook
Blake
All Div.
2-0
1-1
1-1
1-1
0-2
2-0
1-0
0-1
0-1
0-1
14
42
39
31
32
62
PF PA
63
34
47
27
0
13
54
27
28
70
Montgomery 4A West Division
Team
Northwest
Quince Orchard
Gaithersburg
R. Montgomery
Clarksburg
Magruder
All Div.
2-0
2-0
2-0
0-2
0-2
0-2
PF PA
2-0
1-0
0-0
0-1
0-1
0-1
95
77
60
51
14
24
Montgomery 3A Division
Team
Damascus
Seneca Valley
Watkins Mill
Rockville
Wheaton
Einstein
Northwood
All Div.
2-0
2-0
1-1
1-1
1-1
0-1
0-2
PF PA
2-0
2-0
0-0
0-1
0-1
0-1
0-1
Montgomery 2A Independent
Team
All
Poolesville
2-0
Private schools
Team
All
13
7
7
74
49
94
92
69
29
48
40
22
14
30
15
48
79
68
49
86
PF
PA
PF
PA
50 12
3-1 110 29
1-1 34 48
0-1
0 10
1-2 66 92
1-2 54 72
Last week’s scores
Good Counsel survives Calvert Hall
n
Montgomery 4A South Division
Good Counsel
Bullis
Landon
Georgetown Prep
Avalon
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summer, he said while smiling
about his new situation.
Quince Orchard had a lot of
fun Thursday night, beating Walt
Whitman 42-0 in Bethesda.
Game-winner: Springbrook
quarterback Neiman Blain received the snap, dropped back
and saw receiver Antonio Lee
streaking down the right sideline. He lofted a high ball toward
the end zone, probably hoping
the senior wide out would come
down with it. Lee, left arm tangled
with the defender, extended his
right to the ball and hauled in a
22-yard touchdown pass that
would eventually give Springbrook a 14-7 victory against
Clarksburg Monday afternoon.
“He’s really maturing,”
Springbrook coach Adam Bahr
said of his junior quarterback,
who rushed for a 2-yard score in
the third quarter to tie the game
and then heaved the game-winning throw with 5 minutes and 22
seconds remaining in the game.
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Travis Mewhirter and Oliver
Macklin contributed.
Northwest 34, R. Montgomery 13
Sherwood 27, Blair 22
Q. Orchard 42, Whitman 0
Good Counsel 21, Calvert Hall 3
Bullis 34, St. Mary’s Annapolis 6
Avalon 42, MSD 0
Gonzaga 34, Georgetown Prep 0
Wheaton 33, Magruder 24
Gaithersburg 28, Watkins Mill 0
Seneca Valley 41, Rockville 8
Damascus 43, Northwood 8
Churchill 21, Walter Johnson 6
Wootton 24, B.-Chevy Chase 14
Springbrook 14, Clarksburg 7
Paint Branch 42, Blake 0
Poolesville 7, Kennedy 6
N. Harford at Einstein, cancelled
Mt. St. Joseph at Landon, cancelled
BEST BET
Quince Orchard at
Damascus, 6:30 p.m. Friday:
Damascus ended a ﬁve-game
losing streak to QO by beating
the Cougars twice in 2010. QO
moved to 4A the next year, and
they haven’t played since. Damascus looks to show smaller
schools play QO better than the
county’s large schools do.
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Good Counsel
keeps on winning
n
Falcons replace
scoring void with a
committee
HOW THEY RANK
Girls’ soccer
n 1. Good Counsel
n 2. Holy Cross
Seven different players
not named Midge Purce
n 3. B.-Chevy Chase
scored the Our Lady of Good
n 4. Walt Whitman
Counsel High School girls’
soccer team’s seven goals
n 5. Winston Churchill
in two games played in Tennessee over the weekend.
Boys’ soccer
The Falcons defeated
n 1. Landon School
the defending Tennessee
state champion Brentn 2. Walter Johnson
wood, 5-1, and then tied
n 3. Good Counsel
the host Franklin, which
had defeated Good Counn 4. Walt Whitman
sel’s Washington Catholic
n 5. Wootton
Athletic Conference rival
Bishop O’Connell (Va.) by
two goals earlier in the week.
In ﬁve games, eight different players have scored for
Good Counsel (2-0-3), settling some early questions about
how the Falcons would move on from the graduation of
the program’s all-time leading scorer, Purce, who is cur-
SOCCER NOTEBOOK
Good Counsel player returns to Damascus
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFF WRITER
Seven years ago, current sixthyear Damascus High School girls’
soccer coach Katie Chapman was
coaching the Baker Middle School
boys’ team.
“I wanted to coach the girls so
I would always go over and watch
them,” Chapman said.
On that squad was current
Swarmin’ Hornets senior midﬁelder Amanda Amankwa. Chapman was impressed, she said.
“I mostly got to see practices,” Chapman said. “I saw that
[Amankwa] had an eye for the goal
and was sending some great balls
through, even at the middle school
level.”
After Amankwa’s transfer out
of Our Lady of Good Counsel back
to her home school for 2013-14,
Chapman ﬁnally has the talented
playmaker on her team.
Amankwa spent three seasons
with the perennially nationallyranked Falcons and was a contributing factor in the team’s offense
the past two. Amankwa’s arrival
could be just what the historically
competitive Swarmin’ Hornets
need to get over the Class 3A West
Region ﬁnal hump and back to the
state tournament for the ﬁrst time
since their debut in 2003.
“It’s exciting, we’re excited to
have Amanda here,” Chapman
said. “She reads the game well and
knows where she is going before
she gets the ball. She’s ﬁt in and all
the girls are playing well together.”
It helps that Amankwa isn’t a
total newcomer. She spent several
years playing with many of her
current Damascus teammates for
the Damascus Sparks travel club
team. Rejoining them, she said,
has been a comfortable transition.
And the team has been quite
welcoming, Chapman said, which
might not have always been the
at the door of a state semiﬁnal appearance the past few years, but
has fallen just short.
Amankwa said she hopes to
be a part of making school history
with the Swarmin’ Hornets ﬁrstever state title.
It’s not out of the realm of
possibility. Damascus (3-0) has
outscored its opponents 13-1 in
its ﬁrst three contests, which includes a 2-0 win over 1998 state
champion and Class 4A Thomas S.
Wootton.
Six years ago when Chapman
took over the Damascus soccer
program, she probably didn’t
think she’d have to wait so long for
Amankwa to arrive. But now that
she has, it almost feels like she’s
been there all along.
“I knew [Amankwa] when she
played at Baker, I was the boys’
soccer coach at the time,” Chapman said. “I knew about her talent
then and I’m excited to have her
here now.”
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It’s been a good few months for two standouts from
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case with past teams.
The cohesion on this year’s
squad could turn out to be a differentiating factor in the team’s
success Chapman said.
Amankwa has already meshed
with the talented core of seven seniors that has been on varsity for
three to four years. Her creativity
in the middle and ability to move
forward as well plays right into Damascus’ possession style offense,
Chapman said.
Her strengths complement
those of her fellow midfielders,
classmates Annika Leiby and
Steph Cox and leading scorer Katie
Kirschenmann (six goals).
“[Amankwa] has still been a
neighbor, she lives in this area, she
just hasn’t been a schoolmate,”
Chapman said. “The chemistry
with these girls is amazing.”
Amankwa played a part in
Good Counsel’s eighth Washington Catholic Athletic Conference
title a year ago, but there’s something special about trying to win a
state tournament, she said.
Damascus has been knocking
rently in her freshman season at Harvard University.
Imani Dorsey, Nia Dorsey, Courtney Parr, Dana Reed
and Julia Abbott scored against Brentwood, Maddie Pack
and Kori Locksley recorded shots against Franklin.
“Scoring is coming from everyone and it’s good,”
longtime Good Counsel coach Jim Bruno said. “This
team is spreading the ball around and I feel like [having
so many scorers] gives them the conﬁdence that everyone
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next level
n
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AND NICK CAMMAROTA
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Damascus High School soccer player Amanda Amankwa at practice on Wednesday Sept. 11.
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Concussions: Concern in other sports as well
Multiple head injuries
occur in ﬁeld hockey
and volleyball
n
Given all the buzz surrounding concussions in football, it’s a
bit ironic that at least four of the
hot-button injuries happened in
two of the lesser contact sports
during the fall season: field
hockey and volleyball.
Walter Johnson High
School’s top girls’ volleyball
returner, outside hitter Brigid
Morris, went down with the
head injury during a scrimmage
with Col. Zadok Magruder and
could miss anywhere from a
week to a month. The Wildcats
have since begun the season
with 3-0 losses to Damascus (2522, 25-16, 25-11) and Northwest
(26-24, 25-23, 25-15).
PREP NOTEBOOK
BY TRAVIS MEWHIRTER
“I was sad to see Brigid
wasn’t playing,” Damascus
coach Becky Ronquillo said after
the win. “Because she’s a powerhouse when she’s playing.”
Our Lady of Good Counsel’s
ﬁeld hockey team, meanwhile,
had two players suffer concussions — one from getting caught
in the chin with a backswing, the
other from a collision, according
to coach Theda Bagdon, in a 2-0
loss to perennial ISL power St.
Stephen’s/St. Agnes.
Nothing seems to be wrong
with the Sherwood ﬁeld hockey
team and the county’s hottest scorer, Emily Kenul. After
claiming an early-season tournament title at Paint Branch last
weekend, the Warriors toppled
Poolesville 4-0, getting two goals
apiece from Kenul and Gabrielle Yore. The very next day, in a
matchup with Northwest, Kenul
HOW THEY RANK
Volleyball
n 1. Holy Cross
n 2. Sherwood
n 3. Damascus
n 4. Col. Zadok Magruder
n 5. Poolesville
Golf
n 1. Walter Johnson
n 2. Winston Churchill
n 3. Thomas S. Wootton
n 4. Walt Whitman
n 5. Quince Orchard
Field hockey
n 1. Thomas S. Wootton
n 2. Walter Johnson
n 3. Sherwood
n 4. Winston Churchill
n 5. Good Counsel
accounted for all four goals in
another 4-0 win.
Clarksburg, which also saw
a player sidelined with a concussion, is operating slightly
different than its undefeated
counterparts, stacking the box
score with eight girls who either
scored or assisted in a 6-0 win
over Magruder.
“The exciting thing is the
kids are starting to play with a
little more confidence,” said
coach Sissy Natoli, who has her
Coyotes off to a 4-0 start as of
Sunday. “It’s been exciting. It’s a
fun season so far.”
All four of Clarksburg’s wins
have been shutouts completed
by goalie Rachel Brenowitz.
“She’s coming into her
own,” Natoli said. “She’s off to a
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Sherwood High School senior Emily Kenul is leading the Warriors again.
good start.”
Golf
For the second straight
week, Walter Johnson broke 190,
remaining the only team in the
county to do so and certainly the
only one to accomplish the feat
twice. This led to the Wildcats
going 3-0 for the second straight
week, beating Walt Whitman
(204), Quince Orchard (208) and
Bethesda-Chevy Chase (226) at
Northwest Golf course.
“They’re for real,” Poolesville coach Dave Gillespie said.
The Wildcats were led by Noah
Moss, who shot a 35 after posting a season-opening 36 when
Walter Johnson shot an alarmingly low 181. Josh Jacobs and
Michael Gilman checked in at
36 and 37, respectively, and Jordan Bobb, who began the year
with a 33, added a 39. Rounding
out the effort was Taso Scilaris
with a 41.
Gillespie’s squad, meanwhile, is also undefeated in the
second-tier Kyle Division, as
is Col. Zadok Magruder in the
third-tier Kohut Division.
“It’s been so far so good,”
Gillespie said. “This is an extremely veteran team and
they’re producing some really
steady play.”
Poolesville’s top four players — Rohit Mandavia, Craig
Morton, Andy Baker and Trevor
Stottlemyer — are separated by
just six shots on the year with
Mandavia being the current low
man at 82.
“I let them know that we
have more depth than any other
team in the division,” Gillespie
said. And, though early in the
year, he later added, “I like the
sound of undefeated.”
Some of the top individual
performers this week were Winston Churchill’s Luke Schaap
with a 34 and teammate Oliver Whatley with a 36, Thomas
S. Wootton’s Delaney Shah
(36), and Damascus’ Keith
Berkheimer (36).
Wootton, despite returning
all four starters from last year’s
state champion team, dropped
to 3-3 after posting a 209.
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Gaitherburg High School volleyball player Jessica Tynes warms up before a
Sept. 10 match against John F. Kennedy.
Gaithersburg’s
Tynes can excite a
volleyball crowd
n
Senior leader heads a
youthful Trojan team
BY
TRAVIS MEWHIRTER
STAFF WRITER
The crowd may as well
have been asleep. The early
goings of the girls’ volleyball
match between Gaithersburg
High School and John F. Kennedy Sept. 10 was a snoozer,
and the dormant troop of Trojan faithful was reacting accordingly. The vast majority
of points were being won off
of passing errors or relatively
weak kills that found an open
patch of the newly renovated
Gaithersburg gymnasium and
the opening 20 minutes of the
set had gotten the Trojans off
to a 20-11 lead.
Then Sierra Hill set up Jessica Tynes. The alarm clock
went off.
The senior outside hitter
rocketed a spike so hard that
a member of the Kennedy junior varsity team looked up
from her homework, startled,
and asked “What was that?”
That was a Jessica Tynes’ spike
colliding with hardwood, and
there would be many more to
come. With each Hill or Lexi
Seraﬁni set to Tynes, the match
would turn, if ever so brieﬂy,
from a sleepy, slow-paced
match into a mini-spectacle.
She injected life into a threesetter that had been generally
bereft of it, and it soon became
a 3-0 Gaithersburg sweep.
“I just didn’t know what
was going to happen,” coach
Michele Staymates said of her
youthful squad. “I didn’t know
who was going to show up. We
had kind of a rocky preseason.
Since Aug. 14, we’ve only practiced two times in this gym so
that’s been a little different.
It kind of feels like we’re still
away. ... That was a nice way to
start in the new gym.”
Other than Tynes, who is
being recruited by McDaniel College, Marymount and
Franklin and Marshall, there
isn’t much known about this
year’s Gaithersburg squad.
She’s one of just three seniors
on the team and the only of
her class who starts. Staymates
deploys a starting lineup that
includes precocious outside
hitter in 6-foot-1 freshman
Anya Chepernova, sophomore middle hitter Jacqueline
Landry, and three other nonseniors.
“I’m not really worried
about youth,” Staymates said.
“I’m bringing a team that has
played a lot of volleyball in
their short years and, individually, I’ve got some talent. It’s
putting it all together that’s my
job.”
And it’s also part of Tynes’
job. As usually the only senior
on the ﬂoor, the captain isn’t
there just to pound a few balls
past the blockers, but to keep
things operating smoothly on
her side of the court.
“Very, very, very large,” she
said of her role this season. “I
was never captain but now I’m
captain so it’s a big weight on
my shoulder but I like it. It’s
the same old same old but it’s
just a little more leadership.”
Tynes brings not only a
powerful option for Hill and
Seraﬁni to look for, but some
experience and leadership on
a team that has very little of it.
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Gaitherburg High School volleyball
player Jessica Tynes hits a ball during Sept. 10’s match against John F.
Kennedy.
She’s playful between points,
keeping the mood light and
her teammates relaxed. She
laughs and claps and dances,
even twirling Seraﬁni around
in a mini-tango between a
point during the Kennedy
game.
“Jess has a great attitude
out on the ﬂoor,” Staymates
said. “She’s a great leader and
she’s surrounded by babies.
She’s my rock out there. She’s
my captain and she stays in all
the way around.”
So, while light and jovial
when needed, Tynes can also
be all business when it comes
to getting her Trojans out of a
rut or siding out. With the third
set tied at eight — too close by
Staymates’ measure — Tynes
called for her team to get it
together. And who ended up
being set from the left side on
the ensuing point? Tynes. Kennedy would never draw within
striking distance again.
“She had the same role last
year as a junior,” Staymates
said. “She was our leader on
our team offensively so she
knew what she was coming in
for. She’s gotten better, she’s
gotten stronger, she’s gotten
more consistent from the outside. She’s just our go to. When
things are falling apart, just
put the ball in her hands.”
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Springbrook relies
on experience
Field hockey: Blue Devils’
lineup is nearly half seniors
n
BY TRAVIS MEWHIRTER
STAFF WRITER
Seneca Valley High School defender Ismael Sanchez (right) clears the ball in front of goalie Christopher Ocon (left) on Monday
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Seniors lead way for Seneca Valley
Boys’ soccer: Benson,
Mendez, Swanzy and
Vargas form county’s most
experienced midﬁeld
n
BY NICK CAMMAROTA
STAFF WRITER
They formed their bond on
an unassuming ﬁeld that sits behind Waters Landing Elementary
School.
Four senior midﬁelders who
play boys’ soccer for Seneca Valley High School and were raised
in four different countries are
among the many players who
participate in non-stop pick-up
soccer sessions during the offseason and throughout the summer.
No matter how hot (or cold) it is,
it’s a good bet one will ﬁnd Ricardo Benson, Miguel Mendez,
Samuel Swanzy and Alejandro
Vargas there, playing.
How long do they usually
play?
“Oh, we play all night, until
it gets dark,” Mendez said. “We
come out at 3 p.m. and just keep
going.”
Vargas said they’ll position
themselves the same as they do
for their school team to gain more
repetitions and breed a familiarity
with one another.
“People don’t notice, but
we’re always thinking about the
team in the offseason,” said Vargas, the captain. “I think that really helps.”
Fortheaforementionedquartet of players, their senior season
with the Screaming Eagles represents a unique circumstance
in soccer circles — an entire
midﬁeld that’s played with one
another nearly every day of their
lives for the past two years, and is
about to do so again this year. At
soccer’s most important position,
Seneca Valley is loaded.
Swanzy starts on the left wing,
Mendez and Vargas in the middle
and Benson holds down the right
ﬂank.
“Because they’ve played with
each other so long and they spend
a lot of time together in the offseason, they know each other very
well,” Seneca Valley coach Hugo
Zapata said. “You can see their
chemistry on the field. Sometimes, you have to tell them less is
more. They try to get a little fancy
sometimes.”
Vargas wasn’t sure that he
wanted to play soccer two years
ago. Now he aspires to play professionally. He was born in El
Salvador before moving to the
United States when he was 16.
“In El Salvador, we play soccer even if you like it or don’t like
it. That’s life there,” Vargas said.
“When I was 2-years old, I was
kicking the ball.”
He said despite the intense
soccer culture in his home country, Vargas didn’t develop a passion for the game until he joined
Seneca Valley’s team and dedicated himself to getting in shape.
The 5-foot-8 tactician, with a
propensity for joining the attack,
dropped 25 pounds while getting
ﬁt this past summer and led the
club’s offseason workouts.
“When you’re 16 and come
here, everything is kind of cool,”
Vargas said. “You see what goals
you want to set up and see that
they can be accomplished now.”
Swanzy, meanwhile, was
born in Ghana and moved to the
United States when he was 13 after visiting his sisters in the U.S.
periodically throughout his childhood.
The speedy winger with a deft
touch also started kicking the ball
around when he was 2 and heard
stories from his grandfather about
what a brilliant player his father
was until he got injured. Swanzy
wanted to play in the U.S. to continue his father’s legacy.
“I feel like we’re actually
building up a lot of chemistry
since we’ve played for three years
now. We seem to know each
other’s next move is all the time,”
Swanzy said.
A fantastic student and aspiring civil engineer, Swanzy
first committed to playing for
the Screaming Eagles after he
enrolled in a physical education
course on soccer and realized he
had some potential. Last year, he
scoredanolimpico(agoaldirectly
off a corner kick) and continues to
be one of the county’s more impressive players taking set pieces.
Mendez and Benson were
born in the U.S., but Mendez
moved to Bolivia when he was 1
and didn’t return until he started
middle school. It was during
middle school where Mendez
and Benson became good friends
and developed a passion for the
game. That passion fused perfectly with a similar love for the
game possessed by Swanzy and
Vargas and has made for a group
that plays together, eats together,
takes classes together and breaks
down the latest Barcelona or Real
Madrid match together.
“It’s no secret that we’re very
close friends,” Mendez said. “We
understand each other very well
and hopefully that can lead to
good results.”
Sixty minutes of regulation
passed. Then the ﬁrst overtime.
Then all but 38 seconds of the
second overtime period before, ﬁnally, Springbrook High
School’s ﬁeld hockey team netted the game-winner off the stick
of a senior — one of seven on the
roster.
“That was one of my best experiences as a coach so far,” said
coach Rebekah Harrison-Dietz
of the 2-1 double-overtime win
against Watkins Mill Sept. 11. “It
was amazing. My girls showed so
much heart.”
Heart and experience. There
may be no other coach in the
county who can rival the amount
of seniors Harrison-Dietz boasts
on the Blue Devils’ 15-girl roster,
laden with nearly 50 percent seniors. When she’s ever in a tight
spot, such as the double-overtime marathon game against
Watkins Mill, Harrison-Dietz
knows she has options abound
to turn to.
“We have a small team but
we have so many leaders who are
dedicated,” said Harrison-Dietz,
who got the Blue Devils off to a
3-0 start as of Sunday in her ﬁrst
year as the coach. “I think our
strongest point is that we work
well together as a team. All of our
girls step up and all of them contribute. We come together as a
complete team. All of our scoring
is so spread out.”
So spread, in fact, that there
were five different girls who
found the net in a 7-0 seasonopening win over Rockville.
Even the youngsters, take freshman Beira Ho, whom the coach
dubbed “phenomenal,” are
producing for Springbrook and
keeping pace with their veteran
teammates. Sophomore Kelly
Stiller notched the tying goal
against Watkins Mill to force
overtime and, according to Kendra Watson, Ho would have been
there to take home the gamewinner had Watson not gotten
her stick on it ﬁrst.
“It was so exciting,” she said
of netting the game-winner. “I
went to school the next day and
everybody was congratulating
me.”
As for her unusually large
amount of senior peers alongside
her, Watson says she sees it “as a
huge advantage. I feel like even
the underclassmen knows what
they’re doing and helping to get
the ‘W.’”
The defense, anchored by
a handful of juniors in sweeper
Lizbeth Tapia and Tori Yetley, in
particular receives a boost from
the more youthful Blue Devils,
though it is held together by senior captain Angelica Darling.
“It’s been going pretty well,”
Darling said of the abundance
of her fellow 2014 classmates.
“There’s no real power clashes
or anything. We all get along well
and the team chemistry is good.”
Darling has been charged
withﬁllinginforCassidyO’Hearn
at center mid — essentially the
quarterback of a field hockey
team — while O’Hearn nurses a
sprained ankle she suffered in a
1-0 win over Gaithersburg. Entering the season, the obvious
pick for who would be leading
the Blue Devils would have been
O’Hearn, a second-team All-Gazette selection last year. But, as
it turns out, no single girl has to
shoulder that burden when she
has six other equally experienced
teammates to divvy it out to.
“There’s a better flow,”
O’Hearn said. “[Harrison-Dietz]
has deﬁnitely changed the dynamics a lot. We do a lot more
team-oriented stuff. It’s made a
lot of the seniors step up, I think.”
Watson was shifted from left
mid to right forward, a position
she played for several years prior,
in O’Hearn’s absence, and she
doesn’t appear to have missed
a beat. Neither, it seems, has the
team as a whole.
KEEPING IT BRIEF
Miller resigns as Churchill
boys’ basketball coach
Winston Churchill High
School boys’ basketball coach
Matt Miller announced Thursday that he is resigning from
the school to accept an assistant
coach position with Shepherd
(W. Va.) University
In Miller’s ﬁve years with the
Bulldogs, he amassed a 79-41
record, including three consecutive division titles. In 2012, he led
Churchill to its ﬁrst 4A West Region ﬁnal in more than 30 years,
according to a news release. The
Bulldogs lost that game to eventual state champ, Col. Zadok
Magruder.
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Coaching at the college level
has always been an aspiration for
Miller, who has also held stints
at Marymount and Mount St.
Mary’s. At Shepherd, his main
duties will be scouting and recruiting. Conveniently enough,
he’s become quite familiar with
the recruiting hotbed that is the
D.C., Maryland, Virginia region.
“I’ve been doing a lot of
thinking the last couple years,”
he said. “I thought this would be
a good opportunity to stay close
and coach at the next level.”
Miller said he will teach for
another week and a half or so before heading out to West Virginia.
— Travis Mewhirter
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Communication skills led to economic development positions
‘Now’s the time to
ﬁgure out exactly
what we want here’
n
BY
LAURIE M. BOYER
n Position: Executive director, Rockville
Economic Development Inc.
n Education: Master’s degree,
communication studies, West
Virginia University. Bachelor’s in
communications/Spanish, Juniata
College, Huntingdon, Pa.
KEVIN JAMES SHAY
STAFF WRITER
At an early age, Laurie M. Boyer
found she was a good communicator.
“I’ve always been able to talk in
front of groups and get across a message,” said Boyer, executive director of
Rockville Economic Development Inc.,
who recently was selected as one of 49
members of the Class of 2014 of Leadership Montgomery Core program.
“Communication is at the core of what
we do in economic development and
the key to a lot of professions.”
Growing up in Frederick, Boyer
traveled outside the state to earn a
bachelor’s degree in communications
and Spanish at Juniata College in Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in communication studies at West Virginia
University. But her ﬁrst job out of college was back in Maryland as an adjunct
instructor in the Humanities Department at Frederick Community College.
Boyer spent about a decade there
and then took a position with Frederick
County as a transportation coordinator,
where she initiated the ride share program. She became public information
ofﬁcer in the county manager’s ofﬁce,
then eased into economic development, eventually becoming director of
the Frederick County Economic Development Division.
A little more than a year ago, she
ventured down Interstate 270 to head
REDI, a public-private partnership
funded by the city of Rockville that
works on retaining and attracting businesses. She took over for Sally Sternbach, who had headed REDI for almost
a decade and became deputy director
of Montgomery County’s Department
of Economic Development.
In working to attract and expand
businesses, REDI runs women’s business
plan competitions, houses a women’s
business center, coordinates a postdoc
conference and supports the downtown
Rockville business innovation center.
“Rockville has a lot of cranes in the
air, which is good to see in economic development,” Boyer said, citing projects
downtown and along Rockville Pike.
“It’s a city going through some changes
from a largely suburban community to
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n Professional/community:
Leadership Montgomery Class of
2014. Immediate past president,
Maryland Economic Development
Association. Chairwoman, MEDA
Foundation Board. Board member,
Rockville Chamber of Commerce.
Member, NAIOP Maryland/DC
Chapter, International Economic
Development Council. Named one
of “Maryland’s Top 100 Women.”
Professional Economic Development
Certiﬁcation, International Economic
Development Council.
n Residence: Frederick.
n Activities away from work: Golf,
Baltimore Orioles games.
n Best business advice given: Honesty
is always the best policy. When you
are working on problem solving, it’s
not always necessary to know the
best way to do things, but you should
know who you can call to help you
ﬁnd the best solution.
BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE
Rockville is “a city going through some changes,” says Laurie Boyer, executive director of Rockville Economic Development Inc.
a more urbanized environment. There
will be some growing pains, such as
getting used to parking in garages. But
I think Rockville will emerge as a better
city because of the changes.”
The idea of implementing more
walkable, town center-type developments where residents live, work and
shop makes sense, she said. Projects
like White Flint and Pike & Rose, which
is just outside the Rockville city limits,
are moving fast, she noted.
“Now’s the time to ﬁgure out exactly what we want here,” Boyer said.
Personal experience
with trafﬁc jams
As a Frederick resident, taking the
daily trafﬁc-laden commute down I-270
gives Boyer personal experience in a
big issue to businesses: transportation.
The Corridor Cities Transitway project,
a high-quality rapid bus line operating between a 9-mile corridor from the
Shady Grove Metro station to northern
Montgomery County, is an important
component to easing trafﬁc backups
there, she said.
Many people want to see the Red
Line of the Metro extended to Frederick, but that would probably cost too
much at this time, she noted.
Boyer has long been involved in a
wide range of professional and commu-
nity organizations, such as being past
president of the Maryland Economic
Development Association.
“That helps me gain a good understanding of economic development issues and challenges across the state,”
Boyer said. “I’ve learned how the state
is strong in many areas. It’s not just
high-tech, but areas such as agriculture
and manufacturing are strong.”
While job creation has slowed some
statewide with the number of jobs increasing only 3 percent in the past three years,
below the national average of 4.6 percent,
a large part of that is due to changes in the
federal government landscape and sequestration budget cuts, she said.
“A lot of businesses are changing
their focus to not rely on the federal
government as much,” Boyer said. “I
think you will see those numbers go up
signiﬁcantly in the near future.”
kshay@gazette.net
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Tell me about your teaching career.
Was this your ﬁrst career choice?
VOICES IN EDUCATION
No, after graduating from the University of Maryland I actually started a pool
management company: Aquatic Specialists Corporation. I also coached the swim
team at the Upper Montgomery County
YMCA [in Montgomery Village].
Being a swim coach is what drew me to
teaching, working with kids, I found it very
enjoyable.
I started teaching in the 1999-2000
school year at Greenwood Elementary
School [Brookeville], fourth and fifth
grade. I wanted to teach middle school so
I got certiﬁed to teach math and worked
at Forest Oak Middle School [Gaithersburg] for three years, went back to
Greenwood for two years, taught at Argyle Middle School [Silver Spring] for six
years and this is my ﬁrst year here.
Peter A. (Pat) Tozzi
n Age: 49
n Job title: Math teacher at
Lakelands Park Middle School,
Gaithersburg
n Hometown: Kensington
n Education: Bachelor’s
degree, University of
Maryland, College Park;
master’s degree, McDaniel
College, Westminster
n Family: Wife, Lynn; two
daughters
n Hobby: Riding a
motorcycle, swimming
Why did you go from elementary school
to middle school then back to elementary
before settling on middle school?
n Favorite vacation
spot: Outer Banks in
North Carolina
I felt like I needed to work on my classroom management skills and I thought it
would be easier to practice in elementary
school.
n Lesson to
live by: There
is always
something
more you
can learn.
Does the county offer classes or help
with that?
Yes, there are helps, like other teachers to work with you and I took a course
— Fred Jones’ Tools for Teaching — three
years ago that was very helpful.
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What did you learn that was most help-
Just keep your cool. If students see you
get ﬂustered, sometimes that’s what they
want.
Are middle-schoolers a problem?
No, the kids here are wonderful, at
Argyle they were wonderful, too. It’s not
that kids are hard in terms of managing
behavior, you have to motivate them. It’s
all about motivating students to your lessons. You can never be an expert, there is
always room for improvement. There are
several ways to teach the same thing and I
try to present the lessons in different ways.
It’s about knowing your students and how
they learn.
How did you choose to be a math
teacher? Was there any one person responsible?
My father. He is a Ph.D. electrical engineer. What he taught me was number
sense. If kids understand how numbers
work, they are more successful.
As a kid [math] was my strength, I
wasn’t a good reader — as an adult I was
diagnosed with ADHD. Math was where I
saw success and what I enjoyed doing. One
reason I left elementary school was teaching the other content areas was somewhat
difﬁcult for me.
Do you have a favorite math course or
level to teach?
The course I enjoy teaching most is
Math 7, seventh grade. It is that step where
you really get students ready for advanced
math. It gives them a good foundation to
get into algebra.
What is the hardest thing about teaching math to middle school students?
The hardest part about teaching middle school kids is trying to make the lessons interesting enough to really get them
involved. I try to move away from the old
stand and deliver. I try to do more of having kids working in groups, more student
discourse, working together to ﬁgure it out.
If you had one magic power to help you
in teaching what would that be?
A secret way to make it interesting for
them, a way to determine what it is to get
students really interested in math.
What is it that you like best about your
job?
My favorite part is trying to help the
children, visiting the groups, listening to
the discussion, seeing them come up with
a solution. That “oh yeah!” moment is big.
“Voices in Education” is a twicemonthly feature that highlights the men
and women who are involved with the
education of Montgomery County’s children. To suggest someone you would like
to see featured, email Peggy McEwan at
pmcewan@gazette.net.
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Superheroes rule at PTA’s
back-to-school picnic
The Christa McAuliffe PTA
hosted its annual back-toschool picnic Sept. 6, with a
theme of “Superheroes.”
On hand to talk with students were people whom the
PTA considers community superheroes: Maryland-National
Capital Park Police with a
bomb-snifﬁng dog, a Montgomery County police ofﬁcer, ﬁre
and rescue members from the
Germantown station with a ﬁre
truck, and an Air Force member.
The evening included a
table for children and families
to write letters or draw pictures
for deployed U.S. military
members; a mask-making table
where children decorated their
own superhero mask and then
donned a McAuliffe Superhero
cape for a photo; an inﬂatable
Superhero Academy obstacle
course; a bubble station; a bean
bag toss; and a disc jockey.
“Great things happen when
the school and the PTA work
hand in hand to create memorable things that bring the community together,” said Wanda
Coates, principal at S. Christa
McAuliffe Elementary School
in Germantown. “Kids were
encouraged to wear superhero
costumes if they had them. A lot
of kids came in costume.”
Kindergartner Kara Creuziger wore her Batgirl costume.
“It was great because I got
to have some cake and it was
really, really fun when it was
night time. I was pooped out,”
Kara wrote in an email.
Cake and lemonade were
served to the 300-plus attendees courtesy of the PTA and the
school.
“It was wonderful to see
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Back to School Nights
planned this week
• James Hubert Blake High
School will hold its annual Back
BROOKSIDE GARDENS
The Crawdaddies will perform at noon and 2 p.m. Saturday at Children’s Day
at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton. The free family event will feature gardening activities based on school subjects.
so many families,” PTA President Sarah Barrett wrote in an
email. “I think it’s important to
show kids that a superhero can
be more than a character in a
movie who wears a mask. We
have heroes in our own community and every student can
be their own superhero.”
Band’s yard sale
planned for Saturday
Members of the Quince
Orchard High School Marching
Band will sponsor a yard and
bake sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Saturday at the school, 15800
Quince Orchard Road, Gaithersburg.
Items available for sale will
include clothing, books, toys,
games, electronics, furniture,
sporting goods and baby items.
The public may drop off
donations between 7 and 8 a.m.
Saturday at the school.
All proceeds will support
the band and its programs.
Children’s Day takes
to the outdoors
This year’s Children’s Day,
called “School’s Outside!” will
be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday at Brookside Gardens,
1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton.
The free event will demonstrate how gardening and
learning from the garden fosters
environmental literacy and
stewardship for the earth. There
will be a variety of learning
activity tents based on school
subjects. Children can visit the
activity tents to get their “class
schedule” stamped while participating in hands-on learning
activities that integrate the
school subjects with the outdoors, gardening and nature.
The day will include activities, crafts, displays, storytime
and entertainment by the Crawdaddies, whose music combines
some of Louisiana’s Cajun,
Zydeco and blues sounds with
other inﬂuences. Their shows will
be at noon and 2 p.m.
For more information, call
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to School Night and Table Fair
from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday
at 300 Norwood Road, Silver
Spring.
The fair, sponsored by
the Parent Teacher Student
Association, is a collection of
displays from the school’s clubs
and organizations. There also
will be members available to
answer questions. It will be held
in the school cafeteria from 5:30
to 6:45 p.m. before classroom
visits begin. For more information call 301-879-1300.
• Montgomery Village Middle
School will hold its Back to
School Night from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Thursday at 19300 Watkins Mill
Road, Gaithersburg. It’s an opportunity for parents and guardians to meet with teachers and
instructional teams. For more
information call 301-840-4660.
Bethesda students win
research scholarships
Three Bethesda students
won Dr. Istvan Madaras SciTech Scholarships, allowing
them to conduct scientiﬁc
research at the Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology in Haifa
this summer.
Marnie Klein, a 2013 graduate of Bethesda-Chevy Chase
High School; Jared Duker Lichtman, a senior in the Science,
Mathematics and Computer
Science Magnet Program at
Montgomery Blair High School
in Silver Spring; and Ari Gilad
Mandler, a 2013 graduate of
Walt Whitman High School in
Bethesda were among 44 high
school students from around
the world to participate in
SciTech, a three-week international science and technology
research camp at the Technion,
now in its 20th year.
SciTech provides teenagers the chance to carry out research in a broad range of ﬁelds
alongside accomplished Israeli
researchers, while experiencing
life in Israel.
The scholarship is awarded
each spring to deserving
Washington-area high school
students by the daughter of
Madaras, an accomplished cellist and pediatrician who died
in a Nazi concentration camp
during World War II.
Klein, now a freshman premed student at Georgetown University in Washington, worked at
the Rambam Pediatric Hospital
researching primary immunodeﬁciency disease. The experience
provided the opportunity to
study patient cases and to work
in both the genetics and blood
laboratories. The mentoring was
top-notch, she said.
Her mentor arranged for
her team to meet Nobel Prize
Laureate Distinguished Professor Aaron Ciechanover.
“That was the best half-hour
of my life,” Klein said in a statement. “He was very inspiring.”
Lichtman, an athlete who
has played soccer three times in
the Maccabi Games, spent his
summer immersed in another
type of game — game theory.
Working with an Israeli
student and another American, Lichtman researched a
mathematical algorithm. They
looked at a situation in which
there are people from each of
three different parties arranged
in threesomes.
He and his group, which won
the SciTech 2013 Scientiﬁc Poster
Competition, intend to continue
working on the problem with the
hope of eventually publishing a
formal research paper.
Lichtman was named a
2013 National Merit semiﬁnalist, competed in the American
Computer Science League
All-Star Contest in 2012, is an
Advanced Placement scholar
with distinction and member
of the National Honor Society.
He is a linguist and member
of the Latin and French Honor
societies at Blair and has been
a member of the school’s track
and ﬁeld and varsity soccer
teams. In June, he was awarded
the Congressional Award Gold
Medal for four categories, including community service.
Mandler, now a freshman
at the University of Maryland,
College Park, where he plans
to study molecular biology and
pharmacology in the context of
medical research, worked this
summer with adult cardiomyocyte cells to examine the role
of a protein called Activating
Transcription Factor 3 on thickening of the heart muscle and
heart failure.
He was president of the
Whitman Key Club and a
regular intern at the National
Institutes of Health during high
school. Upon graduation, Technion Associate Professor Ami
Aronheim, who worked with
Mandler and his partner in the
lab, praised their enthusiasm
for learning.
“We found a cockroach in
the lab and they studied its inside to look for its heart,” Aronheim said in a statement.
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HEALTH CALENDAR
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18
An American Red Cross
blood drive is scheduled from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Suburban
Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown
Road, Bethesda. Blood donors
report feeling a sense of great
satisfaction after making their
blood donation. Why? Because helping others in need
just feels good. 301-896-2849.
www.suburbanhospital.org.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 19
Community CPR, from 5-10
p.m. at Suburban Hospital,
8600 Old Georgetown Road,
Bethesda. Learn to respond
effectively in emergencies.
Appropriate for young adults,
nannies, au pairs, lifeguards
and preschool teachers. Class
includes Infant, Child and
Adult CPR. Credential course,
CPR certiﬁcation provided.
Feel free to bring a light snack.
Appropriate for ages 14 and
up. $75. Previous Safe Sitter
graduates can send completion card and receive a 25 percent discount on Community
CPR class only. 301-896-3939.
www.suburbanhospital.org.
Pre-diabetes Group Class,
from 3-5 p.m. at the Nutrition
and Diabetes Center, 17735
Georgia Ave., Suite 010, Olney.
Learn more about pre-diabetes and how to prevent the
onset of type 2 diabetes from
a certiﬁed diabetes educator.
Located next to Sandy Spring
Bank in Olney. Entrance and
Hogan
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hogan married on Sept. 12, 1953, in Washington, D.C.
Farrell
Eliza Carolyn Farrell of Silver Spring and Joshua Thad Reece of New York were married Sept. 1 at St. Mary of the Mills
Church in Laurel. The ceremony was conducted by the Rev.
Monsignor Michael Mellone, the church’s pastor and a family
friend.
Luke Farrell of Silver Spring served as his sister’s Man of
Honor. Jason Betlow of Rock Hill, S.C., and Klevis Peshtani of
New York were Best Men. The readings were proclaimed by Kaythi Han of Alexandria, Va., who also knit the shrug worn by the
bride; Renae Nicholes, the groom’s sister from Columbia, S.C.,
and Shelley Eisenhardt, of Happy Valley, Ore.
The bride, 25, has been employed for ﬁve years by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency where she has been an embedded librarian and environmental protection specialist. She
studied at the University College Dublin in Ireland, and received
a Bachelor of Philosophy summa cum laude in English literature, anthropology, and history from the Honors College at the
University of Pittsburgh. She also holds a master’s degree in
library science with a specialty in school media from the Division of Library and Information Science at St. John’s University,
Queens, N.Y.
The groom, 30, is an associate at Dwyer & Taglia, Esqs., in
New York where he defends medical malpractice cases. He is a
graduate of St. John’s University School of Law, Queens, N.Y.,
and the University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C., where he
received his bachelor’s degree in music performance magna
cum laude. He is a member of the District of Columbia and New
York bars.
The couple were given away by their parents, W. Christopher
Farrell and Mary E. Crowley-Farrell of Silver Spring and James T.
and Kimberly V. Reece of Irmo, S.C. The reception was held at
Adelphi Historical Mill. The date of the wedding coincided with
the 34th wedding anniversary of the bride’s parents.
Following a honeymoon in New Zealand, the couple will reside in New York.
Bradbard, Brennan
Laura and Steven Bradbard of Laytonsville announce the engagement of their daughter, Allyn Jenny Bradbard, to Aaron Brennan, son of Linda and Matthew Brennan of Burke, Va.
The bride-to-be, who graduated from Wootton High School in
2005 and Lehigh University in 2008, works for Humanscale.
The prospective groom, a 2004 Lake Braddock High School graduate, earned a bachelor’s degree in ﬁnance from Temple University
and is employed by Robert Half International. A June 2014 wedding
will take place at the Chesapeake Bay Beach Club in Stevensville.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 20
Heart Smarts, from 11 a.m.
to 1 p.m. at Suburban Hospital,
8600 Old Georgetown Road,
Bethesda. Educational program
focuses on strategies for hearthealthy living. Learn how to
care for, prevent and reduce
the risk of heart disease and
other heart-related conditions.
Family members are encouraged to participate. Registration
required with a ﬁve-person
minimum to hold class. www.
suburbanhospital.org.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 21
First Aid, from 12:45-5
p.m. at MedStar Montgomery
Medical Center, 18101 Prince
Philip Drive, Olney. The Heartsaver First Aid course teaches
how to manage illness and
injuries in the ﬁrst few minutes
until professional help arrives.
This program is ideal for community members and meets
the requirements for Childcare
Providers certiﬁcation. After
successful completion, the
student will receive a Heartsaver First Aid card from the
American Heart Association.
$55; Registration required.
301-774-8881. www.montgomerygeneral.org.
RELIGION CALENDAR
ONGOING
Damascus United Methodist Church, 9700 New
Church St., Damascus, offers
traditional Sunday morning
worship services at 8:15 a.m.,
a youth contemporary worship service at 9:30 a.m. and a
service of liturgy and the word
at 11 a.m. with Sunday school
at 9:30 a.m. for all ages during
the school year.
Liberty Grove United
Methodist Church, 15225 Old
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PLACING AN
ANNOUNCEMENT
1895372
1906784
ample free parking located in
the rear of the building. $20;
Pre-registation required. 301774-8727. www.montgomerygeneral.org.
1906741
Columbia Pike, Burtonsville,
conducts Sunday morning
worship services at 8:30, 9:30
and 11 a.m. Sunday school,
nursery through adult, is at
9:30 a.m. 301-421-9166. For
a schedule of events, visit
www.libertygrovechurch.org.
“MOPS,” a faith-based
support group for mothers
of children, birth through
kindergarten, meets from
9-11:30 a.m. the ﬁrst and
third Wednesdays of the
month at the Frederick
Church of the Brethren, 201
Fairview Drive, Frederick.
Childcare is provided. This
year’s theme, “A Beautiful Mess: Embracing Your
Story,” focuses on remem-
bering that beauty can come
out of chaos and that your
past, present and future can
be used for good with God’s
love. For more information
call 301-662-1819. Email
mops@fcob.net.
Providence United Methodist Church, 3716 Kemptown
Church Road, Monrovia,
conducts a contemporary
service at 8 a.m. followed by a
traditional service at 9:30 a.m.
Sunday mornings, with children’s Sunday school at 9:30
a.m. and adult Sunday school
at 11 a.m. For more information, call 301-253-1768. Visit
www.kemptownumc.org.
Trinity Lutheran Church,
11200 Old Georgetown Road,
North Bethesda, conducts services every Sunday, with child
care from 8 a.m. to noon and
fellowship and a coffee hour
following each service. 301-8817275. For a schedule of events,
visit www.TrinityELCA.org.
Chancel choir auditions
and rehearsals, 7:30 p.m.
Thursdays at Liberty Grove
Methodist Church, 15225
Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville. Call 301-421-9166
or visit www.libertygrovechurch.org.
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vacy 3BR, 3BA newly
renovated SFH. 2
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central
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brochure. Open daily.
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1-800-638-2102. Online reservations:
www.holidayoc.com
FREDERICK: 3BR,
2.5BA TH nr Ballenger
Creek, $1300 + utils. +
1 mnth sec dep. 202487-4773
FREDERICK: 4 BR/
Magnificent home in like new condition
beautifully & tastefully renovated with
superior materials both inside and out.
Complete privacy yet so convenient to
routes 70 and 270, a perfect retreat
backing to acres of parkland. Custom
construction offers character and quality,
a rare combination of elegance and
comfort with attention to detail at every
turn. 5 bedrooms, 4 full and 2 half baths,
3 finished levels, hardwood flooring
throughout, extensive hardscape.
Welcome home to paradise!
Sharon Keeny,
Realtor
Long and Foster
410-715-2743
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3BA TH. Close to Fort
Detrick. $1600/month.
Call Mark 240-3530998
B E T H E S D A : 3BD,
GERM: SFH 4Br/2Ba
fin bsmt, h/w floors,
fenced yard, fireplace.
Near 270.
$2450.
301-442-5444
GAITHERSBURG :
SFH, 4Br, 2.5 bath ,
newly renovated, walk
out basement, walking
dist. to metro. 301806-0292
GAITHERSBURG:
MV/GAITH:
301-926-6175
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@MagruderCos.com
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TH 3BR, 2.5BA, finish
bsmt, comm pool, cl
to Kentlands, $1800 +
utils 301-222-7236
Plan
Place your Yard Sale ad Today!
24.99
*includes rain insurance
Call Today 301.670.2503
POTOMAC: lrg 3 br,
2.5 ba, SFH, finished
basement, living rm,
dining rm, den w/fp,
deck, carport, completely
remodeled,
close to 270, $3000/
month 240-372-8050
4BR,
GERM/TH:
2.5BA, wew carpet,
paint, deck. Ready to
Move In. $1750/mo + ROCK/ASPEN HILL
clean
SFH
utils HOC Welcome Super
3br/1ba, hrdwd flr w/d,
301-972-1788 lv msg
AC, $1985 + Avail
LAYTONSVILLE/ Now. 301-275-2673
GAITH: 3BR, 1.5 BA,
fresh paint, new eating
kit, sep liv & dining rm,
2fps, deck, 2 car grg,
$2050/mo + utils Joe
B O W I E : TH 3 BR/
Marosy 301-452-0600
2.5 BA, car garage, 2
M V : All new remod level deck $1850/mo
3br, 2.5ba, 3 lvl TH, Call 916-718-7761 or
deck, pool NS, NP, 770-337-0466
$1,525 + utils. Avail
Now! 301-990-9294
Gaithersburg
New TH 4br, 3.5ba, Garage,
Deck, FP, Hardwoods
Throughout, Gourmet
Kitchen, Granite Counters,
Lawn Maintenance Included
$2275/month
2BA+ den SFH. Deck,
off street pkg, rec rm.
$2200/mo Avail now! G A I T H : HOC
Ok
Call: 301-530-1009
Renov 5br 2fb 2hb,
new paint & carpet,
GERM: great loc, Nr Public Transp
quiet
neighborhood,
$2150 301-254-4878
newly renov TH. 3BR
2.5 BA, all new appliances, flooring, & deck GAITH: SFH 3BR,
w/great bck yrd $1750 2BA, Deck, lrg fncd
yrd, nr Goshen & MetCall: 301-775-1912
ro, $1800 + utils 301ahead!
233-2811 Avail 11/01
$
Rice (301) 670-2667 for pricing and ad deadlines.
GERM:Gorgeous 4
BR/2.5 BA, SFH conv
Milestone location
$2500/m. Please call:
240-731-5361
3br
2.5ba, TH fen yd w/d ,
AC, renov, $1475+utils
nr sch. 301-279-9328
or 206-992-5206
OLNEY: 4br, 2.5ba,
3 finished floors,NP,
pool/tennis ct, w/d.
$1875/mo + utils. Avl
09/01. 301-774-2913
OLNEY: TH, 3Br, 2.5
Ba, fin bsmt, grg,
deck,
pool/tennis,
great nbhd, NP/NS,
avl 09/01, $1950 + util
Call: 301-938-4587
OLNEY: TH 4BR, 3.5
BA, w/o bsmt, deck,
fncd yd, near shops
restaurants $2150/mo
+ utl Call Sam 301237-3070
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LAKESIDE APTS
GAITHERSBURG
Half Month Free
Large 1 or 2 BR Apts
Furn or Unfurn
Utilities Included
Great Prices
301-830-0046
N.POTOMAC
ROCKVILLE: 1 BR
Apt. $1250 incl util,
CATV, Free Parking
Avail now.
NS/NP
CALL: 301-424-9205
TAKOMA PRK:
Unfurn 1Br 1Ba Apt.
W/D $1200/mo or best
offer, nr Metro, off
street Prkng Please
Call 301-559-3006
GERM: 2BR/2FB, W/D
Newly renovated, near
270/Middle Brook Inter
sect. $1400/mo HOC
OK 301-455-8440
GERM: Lux 2BR, 2.5
BA Split lvl w/FP, hwd
flrs, balc, w/d, nr Bus
$1375. Avail Immed.
Call 240-350-5392
Apt in SFH $850/mo
utils incl Free Cable.
Available
October
Call: 301-509-3050
shared Ba w/ a male
$400 +util in SFH quiet
neighborhod.
Avail
Now. 301-538-8575
GAITH: basment apt.
Pvt entr, pvt kit & BA,
$900/mo inclds util &
FIOS. Storage. 301370-7508 Avail 8/1
BETH: beautiful 1400 GAITHERSBURG:
sqft,3br,2fba/den/offic 1Br, 1Ba, Shr Kit,
$2200+elec 301-452- cable/int, N/S N/P,
3636 bethesdagirl@ $550/month includes
juno.com nr Mont Mall utils 240-643-4122
DAMASCUS: spa-
GAITHERSBURG:
cious 2 BR, renovated,
updated appl, in unit
W/D, prvt prk, $1250
incl utils 240-315-3831
Male, 1Br $299, master BR w BA $399. Nr
Metro/Shop . NS. Avail
Now. 301-219-1066
GAITHER: 1Br & Ba,
GAITHERSBURG:
renovated,
nr bus,
stores etc, $1200/mo
inc util, Avl now
Call 301-926-0163
TH Bsmt Apt pvt entr
$750/mo util incl.Near
Shops/Metro 240-3887552 or 240-370-0272
GAITHER:
GAITH:M BRs $430+
440+475+555+ Maid
Ns/Np, nr 270/370/Bus
shops, quiet, conv.Sec
Dep 301-983-3210
3Br, +
den, 2 Ba, renovated,
Sec
8
welcome,
$1800/mo
inc
util
Call: 410-800-5005
Priv Ba, walk-in clst.
Fios/Wifi. $650 utils
incl. 301-674-9300
GAITH: Rm w/pvt BA
in SFH $550 Plus Utils
1st and Last Month in
Advance Deposit Req.
Call 240-606-7259
G E R M : 1 Lrg Br in
BELTSVILLE: 1Br
BOWIE: Unfurn Bsmt
GAITH/QUINCE
ORCHARD: 1 Mb,
Bsmt
w/priv
Ba,
NS/NP, priv parking,
nr Bus, Female, 610 +
uti, 240-401-3522
GE RMA NT OWN :
G560395
Contact Ashby
RIVERDALE: Furn SS: SFH Furnish BR
1Br, share Ba in 2br pvt Ba, Female Only
Apt $500/mo internet uti incl $675 +Sec Dep
nr Metro, Bus, Shop- nr RIDE ON, Wheaton
ping Ctr 301-254-2965 Metro 301-681-7848
ROCK: 2 NICE BR
BSMT Apt , lvg rm part
furn, prvt kit/ba/ent
NS/NP, $850/mo +
utils 301-424-4366
WHEATON: Male
pref non-smoker, 1BR,
shr BA, near metro,
$525/mnth util incl
+dep 301-933-6804
ROCKVILLE:
Bsmt w/2BR, 1BA,
Prvt Entr patio $1200
incl utils, cbl 301-2319390 / 240-644-2221
ROCKVILLE:
furn
bsmt rm with priv entr,
single person, shr
kit/Ba, $700/mo inc util
Call: 240-432-4751
LG Furn BR in uppr lvl
$500 util & laundry included. Sec. Dep Req.
Call: 301-605-5199
ROCKVILLE: Furn.
RM for rent, $500. 1
LAUREL: 1 BR base- mo deposit, shr utils.
Close to White Flint
ment in TH, prvt bath,
share kit $650/month Metro. 301-881-8474
utils incl. Close to 95
SILVER SPRING:
202-903-6599
1BD in nice TH. Off
Rt 29 near public
NORTH POTOMAC: transp. NP/NS. $600
Cheery
basement incl util. 301-793-4665
furn/unfurn w/full Ba &
Br, $975/mo inc util SILVER SPRING:
Call: 301-529-8632
1Br w/priv Ba, W/D,
shrd kit, quiet neighNPOTOMAC: Clean borhood, nr bus, $625
bsmt w/pvt ent. FBA. + util 301-438-3357
Kit. Furn/None. $800+
SILVER SPRING:
util. N/S, N/P. 1 mo.
Rm for rent $600 incld
S/D. 240-603-5280
utils; 2BR 2BA Condo
for Rent $1650 inclds
OLNEY: G R E A T utils, 240-460-2582
DEAL!! Br, shr Ba,
beautiful
EU
TH, SILVER SPRING:
female only $675/mnth Room for $465/mo,
w/util, int, cable TV, shared kit Ba, W/D,
NP/NS Sec. Dep. 301- CABTV & Util, Please
CALL: 301-404-2681
774-4654
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Fine Art, 1 item Or Entire Estate Or Collection,
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Silver,
Coins, Jewelry, Toys,
Oriental Glass, China,
Lamps, Books, Textiles, Paintings, Prints
almost anything old
Evergreen Auctions
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PHOTO
CONTEST
NOTICE OF THREE (3) PUBLIC HEARINGS
FOR PROPOSED SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION
Pursuant to Section 49-53 of the Montgomery County Code (2004) as amended, three
(3) public hearings shall be held before the County Executive (or his designee) on
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2013, in the lobby level auditorium of the EXECUTIVE
OFFICE BUILDING (EOB) located at 101 MONROE STREET in ROCKVILLE,
MARYLAND. The sole purpose of a public hearing is to allow citizens an opportunity to
present oral and written comments concerning construction of a sidewalk that provides
disabled citizens, pedestrians and bicyclists safer travel to schools and nearby public
attractions or facilities. The information presented helps determine whether or not to
recommend constructing a portion of or the entire proposed project. The hearings begin
at 6:00 p.m. and run consecutively thereafter.
FLEA MARKET
LUZERNE AVENUE/ Silver Spring, Maryland
Louis Avenue to Glenridge Avenue (south side)
GARLAND AVENUE/Silver Spring, Maryland
Maplewood Avenue to 7807 Garland Avenue (east side)
7812 Garland Avenue to 7807 Garland Avenue (west side)
GLENMONT FOREST COMMUNITY/Silver Spring Maryland
Multiple Locations (Munson Street, Weisman Road, Grandview Avenue, and
Lindell Street)
EVERY SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 8AM-4PM
Montgomery County Fairgrounds
16 Chestnut St. Gaithersburg, MD
Great Bargains & Low Prices
Vendors Wanted
FREE Admission & FREE Parking
301-649-1915 * johnsonshows.com
GAITHERSBURG: HUGE COMMUNITY
7 BR SFH/OUTSIDE FLEA
MARKET:
Sat 9/21 9a-1p Bargains Galor! Moonbounce for kids! 850
Nelson St, Rockville
B E T H E S D A : Up-
KENTLANDS: Multi
family Yard Sale. HH
& decor items, small
furn, jewelry & much
more! Sat 9/21;9-3pm.
102 Treehaven St.
scale Yard Sale! SAT,
9/21- 9a-3p. Home
decor, hh items, guardian
cookware,
childrens furn and
much more! 7511
OldChester Rd.
GAITHERSBURG
9/21,9a-2p (R/D 9/22).
HH, lighting,
furn,
sports, tools & more!
21001
Sunnyacres
Rd, 20882.
GAITHERSBURG:
Multi-Family Sat. Sept
21st, 8a-3p, Organ,
TV, luggage cameras,
excersise equp, kids
toys & clothes, HH
items, WW2 Navy uniform. 7318 Rosewood
Manor Lane
OLNEY: Sat 09/21
9-4, pls no early-birds!
Back to work! New
cosmetics,
fashion
jewelry, furn, rugs &
much much more!
4709 Broom Drive
POTOMAC :9/21,9-2
Multi-family sale to benefit Seven Locks Baptist Church . 11845
Seven Locks Rd.
SILVER
SPRING:
Colesville
United
Methodist
Church
Inside/Outside, Rain
or Shine! Sat, Sept
21st, 9-1,
52 Randolph Road (vendors
pls call 301-384-7775
for space/tables)
We’re looking for
the cutest,
funniest or best
dressed pet!
GP2311
FURN. Moving Sale
Upscale Items! Entire
content of house must
go. 301-977-4123
Enter your pet for a chance to win a luxury
lodging package from Pet Dominion!
The winning photos will be published in
our All About Pets special section on
October 30, 2013.
*No purchase necessary. See official rules for details.
M ADOPTION:M
GP2295
GAITH: Multi-Family
Yard Sale - Sept. 21
7 - 2 p m
8213-8217 Hawkins
Creamery
Rd,
G a i t h e r s burg, MD
GE RMA NT OWN :
Mulit Family Garage
Sale
***SENECA
OVERLOOK*** Multi
Family
Yard
&
Garage Sale 19935
CEDARBLUFF
DR.
Sept 21st & Sat
22 9a-2pm MD 20879
GERMANTOWN:
Sat 9/21, 9a-1pm.
Grand Yard Sale, Lrge
collection, everything
must go 13025 Cherry
Bend Terrace
GERMANTOWN
Scottsbury Terrace.
Multifamily Comm.
Yard Sale ! Sat. 9/21st
8a-1p. Something for
Everyone ! Rt 355 to
Shakespeare Blvd
to Scottsbury Drive
to Scottsbury Terrace.
NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY
EXECUTIVE DESK:
RECORD OF DECISION
FOR THE MEDICAL FACILITIES DEVELOPMENT AND
UNIVERSITY EXPANSION, NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY
BETHESDA, BETHESDA, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND
(red wood), 6 pc Lvg
rm set, 5 pc bdrm set,
HH items. 301-6494548; 301-674-8681
The Department of the Navy (DON) announces the availability of
FIREWOOD FOR
SALE
$225/cord
$150 per 1/2 cord
µ Includes Delivery
µ Stacking Extra
Charge
Ask for Jose
301-417-0753
301-370-7008
Audubon Square HOA
GP2291
Saturday, September 21st, 9:00 am-1:00 pm
RAIN or SHINE!
to advertise
call
301.670.7100
or email
class@gazette.net
Proposed Award by Montgomery County, Maryland
of Non-Exclusive Franchise to
Zayo Group, LLC
HAVANESE PUPPIES
Home raised, AKC,
best health guarantee
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Call: 262-993-0460
Dr. Jacqueline Eghrari-Sabet
Dr. Gina Dapul-Hidalgo
Aid for qualified students. Job placement
assistance. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-4818974.
MEDICAL OFFICE
TRAINING
PROGRAM! Train to
PUBLIC NOTICE
Zayo Group, LLC has submitted an application for a nonexclusive franchise in Montgomery County, Maryland to attach, install, operate, construct and maintain telecommunications facilities within the Public Rights-of-Way throughout the County for the
purpose of operating its telecommunications system.
Zayo has proposed to pay Montgomery County’s reasonable expenses relating to the preparation, issuance, implementation and
administration of this Agreement, not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) in the aggregate. Zayo has proposed to collect
and remit to the County any applicable Users Tax that is collected
from subscribers. The proposed term of the franchise agreement
is fifteen (15) years.
Any objection to the proposed granting of the franchise by the
County must be filed, in writing, with the County Executive by the
close of business on September 28, 2013 at the Executive Office
Building, 2nd Floor, 101 Monroe Street, Rockville, Maryland
20850. Copies of the proposed franchise agreement are available at the Office of the County Attorney, 101 Monroe Street, 3rd
Floor, Rockville, Maryland 20850. For further information, contact
Mitchell Merryman at 303-854-5271.
(9-4, 9-11, 9-18-13)
Rentals &
For Sale
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Automatic Transmission Specialist
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Inventory Assistant
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Body Shop Technician
Experienced preferred but not required.
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GOLF COURSE EQUIP MECHANIC
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and/or turf equip preferred. Schedule is Mon-Fri
w/alternating wkends. $18/hr. FT Benefits. No phone
calls please. Apply in person wkdays 9am-2pm at 8910
Bradley Blvd, Bethesda, MD 20817 or email resume to
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Telemarketing/Clerical
Professional health care organization in Gaithersburg,
Maryland seeks experienced full-time front desk professional.
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm. Telemarketing experience required.
Position starts at $11/hour plus commission and bonus. High
School Diploma or equivalent required. Email resume to:
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3-18 hrs per week; $8-$18/hr.
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2011 Hyundai Sonata GLS.... $14,499
#3722306, 6 SpeedAuto, Phantom Black, 42.8K Miles, 4 Door #R1692, CVT Trans, 14.5K Miles, Black
2009 Honda Civic Si........... $14,900
$14,900 2010 Toyota Venza............. $19,985
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$14,985 2013 Toyota Prius C Three.... $20,985
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1995 BMW 5-Series..........................1,988
2005 Dodge Caravan SXT..................6,990
2009 Dodge Caliber SXT....................9,990
UNDER $10,995
#KP10186A,AC,AT,ABS, BEST VALUE!, “HANDYMAN”
#KP58509, AUT, LTHR, MNRF, “HANDYMAN”
2,450
2001 Ford Winstar SEL.....................
#FP39852A, 7 Pass LTHR/PWER Seat, PWER OPTS,
Don’t Miss “HANDYMAN”
2001 Mazda MPV LX.........................2,488
#KP39139A, DVD, RAC, PWR OPTIONS, “HANDYMAN”
1998 Toyota Camry LE......................2,488
#KP41506, PW/PLC, TLT, DON’T MISS!!, “HANDYMAN”
2000 Chevy Camaro Z28...................3,950
#KP56784A, 5.7, V8, T-TOPS, P/OPTIONS, CLASSIC! “HANDYMAN”
2002 Kia Sedona EX.........................4,988
#KP31467, LOTS OF FUN! DVD, SPLR. PWR OPTIONS, MD INSP’D
2003 Hyundai Sonata GLS.................4,988
#KP84690, V6, PAMPERED! MNRF, PW/PLC, MD INSP’D
#KP17054, 4WD, 3.2L, Clean! LTHR, PW/PL, AC, MD INSP’D
#KP12424, QUADS, PSET, PW, DON’T MISS!
7,450
2004 Cadillac Deville........................
#KP81202, Prisine! MNRF, LTHR, Parksense, P/OPTS
2005 Honda Accord LX......................7,988
#KP57155, PW/PLC, CD, CC, Don’t Miss!
7,988
2001 Toyota Sequoia SR5 4WD .........
#KP09664A, PSEAT, PW/PLC, CASS/CD COMBO, GREAT
VALUE
2006 KIA Spectra SX.........................7,990
#KP43462, Clean 50K! 5 SPD, PW/PLC, CD, Gas Saver
1998 Toyota Camry LE......................5,988
#KP03265, AT, AC, P/Options, Best Buy!
#KP27447, MNRF, PSEAT, PW/PLC
#KP27304, Leather, Nav, One Owner
2004 Nissan Xterra SE ......................8,588
#KP05169, S/C SPORT, 4WD, MNRF, NTG BDS, 6-DISC
CD, P/OPTS, NICE!
#KP23531, TRNG LTHR/PWR SET, CD, P/OPTS, OFFSEASON PRICED
2006 Volvo S80 2.5T.......................11,470
#KP38876, AWD, Pampered! MNRF, LTHR/PWER Seat, SAB
2007 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer......11,870
#47651KP, 4WD, Beauty! 3rd Seat, LTHR, MNRF, RNG BDS
2006 Subaru Legacy Outbk 2.5XT...11,988
#KP09074, MNRF, LTHR, AT, CD-6, WELL KEPT!
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2006 Toyota Camry XLE...................12,488
#KP33971, SHARP! MRNF, PSEAT, PW/PLC, CD
12,588
2004 Acura MDX AWD.....................11,988
2009 Toyota Corolla LE....................
#KP24515, ALL THE TOYS! NAV, MNRF, LTHR, PWR OPTS
2008 GMC Savana Cargovan...........11,988
2007 Caddy STS..............................12,990
9,488
2005 Mercedez C240W 4-MATIC.....12,488
2007 Honda Accord EX-L V6............14,488
2005 Hyundai Tuscon GLS AWD.........9,788
2008 Mercury Mariner....................12,488
2008 Suzuki X-7 Luxury...................14,588
2002 GMX Sonoma SLS.....................6,988
#KR02313, 3RD SEAT, PRISTINE! PSEATS, CD, P/OPTIONS
#KP95439B, Clean! 92K, AT, AC, PW/PLC
HEMI, Sunroof, Leather, DVD Nav, One Owner
2004 Ford Ranger Supercab..............8,988
#KP28744, 4x4, Tilt, Cruise, AT, Alloys Don’t Miss!
2005 Nissan Sentra 1.8S..................6,988
2005 Toyota Avalon XL....................10,988
#KP15848, GORGEOUS! MNRF, PSEAT, CD, ALLOYS
2009 Toyota Corolla LE....................
#KP65389, CLEAN, 50K! AT, PW/PLC, CD
2006 Subaru Legacy WGN.................6,970
#KP53863, CREW CAB, 4WD, AT, PW, CD, CC, MUST SEE!
#KP21097, Pampered!, AT, P/Options, HTD Seat
2009 Hyundai Sonata GLS...............11,988
#KP14663, PSEAT, ALLOYS, PW/PLC, CD
#KP01702, AWD!, Nice!, PSeat, HTD Seats, P/Options
2008 Subaru Outback WGN.............10,688
2005 Dodge Magnum SXT..................8,970
2003 Toyota Matrix WGN..................6,745
#KR03506, CLEAN!, AUTO, TLT, PLCS, MD INSP’D
#KP37654, Luxury!, LTHR/HTD/Mem Seats, Harman Kardon
CD, SAB
2008 Chrysler Sebring Cnvtb’l.........10,988
2005 Chrysler T&C Limited................8,488
#KP05316A, LTHR/HTD/PWER Seat, P/Options
2006 Buick Lucerne CXS.................10,470
7,998
2004 Dodge Caravan S&T..................
#KP11470A, Nice, DVD, LTHR, PWR DR/Gate
2000 Ford F-150 Supercab...............5,500
2000 Buick Lesabre LTD...................5,955
9,997
2001 Dodge Dakota Club Cab............
#KN99557A, PAMPERED 55K! AT, AC, P/OPTIONS, BD LNR
2005 Dodge Durango Limited..........10,988
#KP25777, PW/PLC, CC, CD, 5SPD, Gas Saver.
2004 Chevy Trailblazer LT 4X4..........8,455
#KX71474, AT, AC, BD LNR, “HANDYMAN”
#KP97597, Sharp! AT, PW/PL, CD, CC
2005 Mazda Mazda 6........................7,997
2006 Chrysler PT Cruiser..................5,488
#KR08278, Clean!, AT, AC, PW/PLC
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2005 Chrysler Pacifica TRNG............8,990
2001 Toyota Highlander Sport...........
#KP11507, 4WD, MNRF, LTHR, CD CHGR/CASS, PSeat
#KP34280, NICE! PW/PLC/PMR, CC, CD
#KP77485, Beauty! MNRF, Wood Grain, P/Options
#KP62182, SHARP! DVD, MNRF, LTHR, DON’T MISS!
#KR11890, AT, AC, Tradesman
#KP65999, IMMACULATE! MNRF, LTHR/PWR SEATS, CD
#KP21874, Mnrf, Audiofile CD Chgr, Stability
12,990
#KP24575, ALL THE TOYS! NAV, LTHR, PWR OPTS
#KP32745, Clean! MNRF, LTHR, CD CHGR
#KP24175, AWD, LUXURY, MNRF, LTHR, P/OPTS
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2011 Chevy Impala LT.....................14,770
#KN88726, MNRF, LTHR/PWER SEATS, CD, ALLOYS, P/Opts, CD Chgr
2009 Mazda 5 Wagon......................14,988
#KP57035, Auto, Sunroof, Leather, 3rd Row
2005 Nissan Armada.......................14,988
#KP6061, AWD, NICE! ALLOYS, RNG BDS, P/OPTIONS
2010 Dodge Charger SXT.................16,988
#KN46874, PSeat, Alloys, PW/PLC, CD, Fac Warr
2004 Infinity FX45...........................19,990
#KP04556, AWD, All The Toys! Nav, MRF, LTHR
20,998
2009 Chevy Silverado 1500.............
#KG36062, Crewcab, 4WD, Meticulously Maintained!